Under the editorship of Dr. William Renwick, we are in the midst of a major research project, the publication of the Music of the Sarum Rite, containing the full text and music of all the services of the day for all Sundays, Week-days, Feasts and Fasts of the Year and Saints Days. This ongoing work is available here.
Les Traditions du Plain-chant Occidental / Traditions in Western Plainchant. Proceedings of the 4th annual Colloquium of the GIC in Hamilton ON, 2009.
In August 2009, the Gregorian Institute of Canada held its Fourth Annual Colloquium in Hamilton (ON). This was the first time a GIC colloquium was incorporating both practical and scholarly engagements with plainchant. The proceedings from this conference have recently been published by the Institute of Medieval Music as Les Traditions du Plain-chant Occidental/Traditions in Western Plainchant (Ottawa: Institute of Medieval Music, 2010). Edited by Pascale Duhamel and Barbara Swanson, the collection includes the work of eleven authors, including the plenary address by Joseph Dyer on the origins of the Antiphonale Missarum; papers on the office of St. Thomas Becket, post-Tridentine chant, and chant transmission; and the Exhibition Catalogue for the conference exhibit “Chant in Colonial Canada,” including numerous images from 17th and 18th century chant books. A wonderful record of the conference, it contains invaluable contributions to chant scholarship and performance practice.
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Table of Contents, 2009 (PDF)
Chant: Old and New/Plain-chant : l’ancien et le nouveau
Proceedings of the 6th Annual Colloquium of the GIC in Halifax NS, 2011.
Edited by William Renwick, with a Foreword by Jennifer Bain, this volume contains 11 articles selected from the papers presented at the 6th Annual Colloquium of the Gregorian Institute of Canada, which was held from August 4 to 7, 2011, at Dalhousie University in Halifax NS.
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Table of Contents, 2011 (PDF)
Chant and Culture / Plain-chant et culture : Proceedings of the 8th annual Colloquium of the GIC in Vancouver BC, 2013.
Edited by Armin Karim and Barbara Swanson, with a Foreword by Chantal Phan this volume contains 15 articles selected from the papers presented at the 8th Annual Colloquium of the Gregorian Institute of Canada, which was held from August 6 to 9, 2013, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver BC, including the Plenary Address by William Mahrt on the Liturgical Role of the Melisma in Gregorian Chant.
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Table of Contents, 2013 (PDF)
Antiphonale Romanum II: The First Volume of the Official Roman Antiphonal, by Michel Gammon, Chœur grégorien de Sherbrooke
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Michel Gammon examines Volume Two of the Roman Antiphonal recently published by the monks of Solesmes. This volume comprises all Sundays’ Vespers as well as Vespers for feasts and solemnities. In this article, the author draws attention on important details of this Antiphonal, and on the musical choices that dictated its composition. Special attention is given to hymns and to the canticle Salus et gloria (Apocalypse 19), which is fairly well known cast in a responsorial form but which, in the Roman Antiphonal, is performed in a tropary style on Sundays where the Proper is used for antiphons, something that is unheard of in our modern Divine Office.
In publishing Michel Gammon’s article, the Gregorian Institute of Canada wishes to encourage employment of the Roman Antiphonal by choirs and ultimately to bring Vespers chant back into community and parish use.
MICHEL GAMMON is Chairman and a chorister of the Choeur grégorien de Sherbrooke. He has been interested for many years in the chant of the Divine Office, particularly in the context of its personal and daily recitation. This interest has led him to focus his research on the formal differences between New and Ancient Roman Offices, and on the diverging formal features of the Monastic Office.