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Ambroʹsian Chant

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The choral music introduced from the Eastern to the Western Church by St. Ambrose, the Bishop of Milʹan, in the fourth century. It was used till Gregory the Great changed it for the Gregorian.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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