A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
CHAPTER X--INFLUENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH 128-133
Church not influential in the development of music as such--nature of the early Christian hymns--St. Ambrose--the Ambrosian scales; corruptions elsewhere--St. Gregory and his reforms--the Gregorian tones--many later reforms--limitations of these reforms--incidental influence of the Church through her great cathedrals.