Schola Cantorum

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 353 words | Copyright

Schola Cantorum (Lat., ‘a school of singers’). In the worship of the early Church all music was rendered by the clergy and congregation, but gradually the practice of having a body of trained singers was introduced. At Rome the Schola was established on a sound footing by Gregory the Great (d. 604). The custom spread over W. Christendom.

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