The Restoration of Gregorian Chant
Solesmes and the Vatican Edition
Dom Pierre Combe, O.S.B.
Catholic University of America Press, 2003
This book presents for the first time in English the fully documented history of the Gregorian chant restoration which culminated in the publication of the Vatican Edition ordered by Pope Pius X at the dawn of the twentieth century. It is based upon archival documents in the Abbey of St. Pierre de Solesmes.
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