MEDICEAN CHANT

Refers to the RomanGradualandAntiphonalpublished by the Medicean press inRomein 1614 under the direction of Felice Anerio (c. 1560–1614) and Franceso Soriano (c. 1548– 1621) that revised texts and melodies of olderchantbooks in the wake of theCouncil of Trent. Pope Gregory XIII charged the composer-editors on 25 October 1577 with "revising, purging, correcting, and reforming" the existing chant books, but it is possible that the new edition merely codified contemporary practices. It became the principal source for the Ratisbon (Regensburg) edition ofchant(1870) promoted by theCecilianreformers in Germany. This was replaced as the standard modern edition ofGregorian chantby the {}Editio Vaticana, the work of the Benedictines atSolesmes, at the end of the century.