Ambrosian chant

noun

1. the liturgical chant, established by Saint Ambrose, characterized by ornamented, often antiphonal, singing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ambrosian chant¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

He introduced the Ambrosian Chant, a mode of singing more monotonous than the Gregorian, which superseded it.

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Music and devotion have gone hand-in-hand from the era of the earliest singing men and singing women of Israel, and the timbrel of Miriam; the Jewish temple echoed the lofty strains of “David’s harp” and the songs of the “Chief Musician;” from the pagan worship of the Greeks sprung the Ambrosian chant, and the Christian Church has been the birthplace and nursery of the grandest conceptions that have flowed from the pen of inspired genius in every later age. 

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It is probably substantially represented by the Ambrosian chant as we find it in the oldest MSS.

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He proceeded to make in his dominions such changes in the Church organization as the Italian policy required, substituting, for instance, the Gregorian for the Ambrosian chant, and, wherever his priests resisted, he took from them by force their antiphonaries.

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The Ambrosian chant was eventually exchanged for the noble Roman chant of Gregory the Great, which has been truly characterised as the foundation of all that is grand and elevated in modern music.

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