This fragment of high spiritual inspiration, which
seems to precede the times of several centuries,
implies a question that historians of music have always
posed: how much the Roman (or rather Greco-Roman)
tradition of pagan religious singing - of which little
or nothing is known - has influenced the birth of the
Gregorian Christian chant. Our personal opinion is that
this influence may indeed have taken place. So few
names have survived the sinking of classicism, among
which that of Mesomede o...(+)
This fragment of high spiritual inspiration, which
seems to precede the times of several centuries,
implies a question that historians of music have always
posed: how much the Roman (or rather Greco-Roman)
tradition of pagan religious singing - of which little
or nothing is known - has influenced the birth of the
Gregorian Christian chant. Our personal opinion is that
this influence may indeed have taken place. So few
names have survived the sinking of classicism, among
which that of Mesomede of Crete is the most remarkable,
it is nevertheless allowed to suppose that there were
many others, and that their memory was not completely
erased during the "dark ages" of barbarian invasions.