The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 10 of 15: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 10 of 15: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church

The Graduale Romanum (together with the Missal) provides plain-song melodies for all the texts styled Accentus or Concentus. The Accentus must be plain-song, and must be that plain-song which is found in the present typical edition, styled the Vati can Edition, Of the Roman Gradual. The Coneen tus, if sung to plain-song melodies, must also be in the approved form found in the Vatican Edition of the Gradual but these texts may employ modern (as opposed to medieval music, provided the musi cal treatment is in every way appropriate as indicated in the Instruction on Sacred Music, commonly styled the Motu Proprio, issued by Pius X on the Feast of St. Cecilia, Patron of Church Music (22 N ov., This modern or figured music is customarily styled in Church decrees simply musica, and the plain chant or plain-song is styled cantus (chant). The serviceable distinction will be employed throughout this article: chant, chanting, chanted, will refer to plain-song melodies; music, musical, to figured music.

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