On the basic of many musicological studies on Cantus planus and of the early mediaeval music it became evident that there exist certain ties between the Byzantine chant and the Gregorian and Ambrosian chant of the Western Church. The author builds her arguments on the works of such musicologists os J. B. Thibaut. A. Gastoue and E. Wellesz.
Early Christian and Byzantine influences upon the music of the Western Church
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