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Gregorian calendar Gregorian calendar
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Gregorian chant Gregorian chant
Gregorian Chant. Solo and unison plainsong choral chants assoc. with Pope Gregory I which became the fundamental mus. of the RC Church. See Plainsong.... Read more
tropical year tropical year
tropical year time between successive vernal equinoxes ; 365 days, 5 hr, 48 min, 46 sec of mean solar time (see solar time ). The tropical year is the basis of the year used in the Gregorian calendar .... Read more
Armavir Armavir
Armavir, Armenia, Russia Armenia: founded in 1839 as Argishti‐khinili and named after the capital of Urartu (see Armenia); its meaning is unknown. It was later renamed Oktemberyan to commemorate the Bolshevik Revolution on 25 October (Julian calendar; now 7 November using the Gregorian... Read more
New Years Day New Years Day
New Year's Day among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. After the adoption of the Gregorian calendar that began in 1582,... Read more
chant chant
chant general name for one-voiced, unaccompanied, liturgical music. Usually it refers to the liturgical melodies of the Byzantine, Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches and is analogous to cantillation in Jewish liturgical music, Qur'anic chanting in Islam, and single-line... Read more
April Fools Day April Fools Day
April Fool's Day or All Fool's Day, holiday of uncertain origin, known for practical joking and celebrated on the first of April. Prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1564, the date was observed as New Year's Day by cultures as varied as the Roman and the Hindu. The holiday is... Read more
organum organum
organum , in music, compositional technique, developed in Europe during the 10th cent., in which each note of Gregorian chant melody was doubled by another note. In the earliest examples, called parallel organum, the doubling interval was constant, usually the lower fourth or fifth. In the 12th... Read more
plainsong plainsong
plainsong or plainchant, the unharmonized chant of the medieval Christian liturgies in Europe and the Middle East; usually synonymous with Gregorian chant, the liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church. In the Western church four main dialects of plainsong developed—Ambrosian, Roman,... Read more
Pietro Angelo Secchi Pietro Angelo Secchi
Pietro Angelo Secchi , 1818-78, Italian astronomer, a Jesuit priest. He was director of the observatory of the Gregorian Univ., Rome, from 1849. He is known especially for his work in spectroscopy and was a pioneer in classifying stars by their spectra. In 1860 he made some notable solar-eclipse... Read more

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