Milanese Chant

Milanese chant (also called Ambrosian chant ) is attributed to St. Ambrose, bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, a time when the Western Roman emperor made it his capital. Hence it is sometimes called the oldest Western chant. It is the liturgical plainchant of the Ambrosian Rite of the Western church. It is the oldest surviving plainchant tradition other than Gregorian which is officially approved by the Roman Catholic Church.

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