@ Gregory - Indeed! However, I need to offer some clarifications to your post:

1. Origins of Gregorian Chant - Modal music comes to us from the far east via northern India by way of Bhudist and Zen monasticism. We are talking here of the early bronze age. Indeed, the Chinese philosopher Confucious speaks of systems of melody for specific occasions and moods, thus suggesting that we ought to go back even further into the mists of antropological history! The nine Greek modes from whence our … [More]