wind chimes
the restoration of gregorian chant solesmes and the vatican edition
gregorian chant the catholic churchs very own music is proper to the roman liturgy but during the course of its long history it has experienced periods of ascendancy and decline . a century ago pope pius x called for a restoration of the sacred melodies and the result was the vatican edition . this book presents for the first time in english the fully documented history of the gregorian chant restoration . the original french edition was published by the abbey of solesmes in 1969 .