Abstract
Gregorian chant, the oldest written form of European music, is seen in a stimulating new perspective in Bergeron's study. The author traces the history of the restoration of Gregorian chant during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, in which story the community of Benedictine monks at Solesmes in France played a leading role. The restoration of Benedictine monasticism after the French Revolution was begun in 1833 by a young priest, Prosper Guéranger. Bergeron suggests that Guéranger envisaged a Benedictine monastery as not just a spiritual center oriented totally to the glorification of God, but also a means of recovering the cultural heritage of the medieval "age of faith." She situates this revival of monastic life in the context of the Romantic thirst for a return to a more civilized age.
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