Are Chants Polyphonic?
Are Chants Polyphonic? Chanting developed in the European Catholic tradition which is multi-part, utilizes non-parallel and simultaneous motion, and is hetero-rhythmic. It developed in the European Catholic tradition around the turn of the first milennium as organum, which arose from monophonic Gregorian Chant. … Does Gregorian chant have texture? Harmony – Gregorian chants are monophonic