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Second edition of this book about Gregorian Chants, revised and enlarged. Small octavo. [6 pp. of prefatory material including half-title], 159, [i, blank] pp. plus three folding scores/ Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with a binder's stamp reading "Offman-Duplanel" on the top margin of the first black, Spine with raised bands and light red morocco gilt lettering label. Marbled endpapers. Some light scattered foxing and general toning but altogether a very handsome copy of this scarce book. OCLC only locates one copy,Much of the book are Chant scores using neume notes.Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions. Although popular legend credits Pope Gregory I with inventing Gregorian chant, scholars believe that it arose from a later Carolingian synthesis of Roman chant and Gallican chant. In point of fact this edition appears to be unknown as OCLC list the Dijon second edition as being 134 pp whereas our is 159pp.