André Mocquereau (6 June 1849 – 18 January 1930) was a French monk at
Solesmes Abbey
Solesmes Abbey or St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes (''Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes'') is a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes (Sarthe, France), famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in the country under Dom Prosper Guà ...
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Gregorian musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...
, who had a great influence on the restoration of Gregorian chant thanks to his musical ability.
His scientific studies resulted in the use of the being ended at the Vatican in 1901.
Publications
* 1908: ''Le nombre musical grégorien ou rythmique grégorienne — théorie et pratique —'', tome I, Société de Saint-Jean-l'Évangéliste ainsi que Desclée & Cie., Rome et Tournai, 430 p
Read online* 1927: ''Le nombre musical grégorien ou rythmique grégorienne, théorie et pratique'', tome II, Desclée, Paris, 855 p.
See also
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Solesmes Abbey
Solesmes Abbey or St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes (''Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes'') is a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes (Sarthe, France), famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in the country under Dom Prosper Guà ...
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Gregorian chant
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 durin ...
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Liber usualis
The ''Liber Usualis'' is a book of commonly used Gregorian chants in the Catholic tradition, compiled by the monks of the Abbey of Solesmes in France. According to Willi Apel, the chants in the ''Liber Usualis'' originated in the 11th century.Ape ...
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Bibliography
* ''Études grégoriennes'', tome XXVIII, Abbaye Saint-Pierre, Solesmes 2011
* Pierre Combe, ''Justine Ward and Solesmes'', translation by Philipe and Guillemine de Lacoste, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington 1987, 410 p
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* Daniel Walden (
Harvard University
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), ''Dom Mocquereau's Theories of Rhythm and Romantic Musical Aesthetics'', 2015 (initialement présentée dans les ''Études grégoriennes'', tome XLII, 2015
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French Benedictines
19th-century French musicologists
20th-century French musicologists
People from Maine-et-Loire
1849 births
1930 deaths
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