Another Gregorian version exists with vocals performed by Amelia Brightman.

Others who contribute to the vocals or sound of Gregorian are Sarah Brightman ( under the pseudonyms Hepsibah or Sarah Hellmann ), Amelia Brightman ( Sarah Brightman's younger sister ), Frank Peterson, and staff of Nemo Studio among others.

Reversed Gregorian chants from " Sadeness ( Reprise )" and vocals from " Mea Culpa " lead to Sandra Cretu's whispers at song's end with more reversed chants and fades into the next track.

The last section, detailing events after the Gregorian mission, Goffart feels were modelled on Stephen of Ripon's Life of Wilfrid.

The week cycle was not even interrupted when 10, 11, 12, or 13 dates were skipped when the Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian calendar by various countries.

The Gregorian calendar reforms made slight changes to the system for determining which years were leap years and thus contained a 29-day February.

Of all the Gregorian Reforms which were embodied by Lateran I, celibacy of the clergy was the most successful.

In the Gregorian, years divisible by 100 but not 400, were exempted in order to improve accuracy.

Beneventan chant is largely defined by its role in the liturgy of the Beneventan rite ; many Beneventan chants were assigned multiple roles when inserted into Gregorian chantbooks, appearing variously as antiphons, offertories, and communions, for example.

It was also a former Roman town ; many of the Gregorian mission's efforts were centred in such locations.

These were two or three part compositions in which several different texts, sometimes in different vernacular languages, were sung simultaneously over a Latin cantus firmus that once again was usually adapted from a passage of Gregorian chant.

The earliest designs of keyboards were based heavily on the notes used in Gregorian chant ( the seven diatonic notes plus B-flat ) and as such would often include B and B both as diatonic " white notes ," with the B at the leftmost side of the keyboard and the B at the rightmost.

* January 3 – Battle of Kinsale: The battle happened on Thursday, 3 January 1602 according to the Gregorian Calendar used by the Irish and Spanish forces in the battle, although, for the English who were still using the old Julian Calendar, the date of the battle was Thursday, 24 December 1601.

The earliest notated music of western Europe is Gregorian Chant, along with a few other types of chant which were later subsumed ( or sometimes suppressed ) by the Catholic Church.

Historians disagree on the precise way it was recovered in Northern Italy about 1070: perhaps it was waiting unneeded and unnoticed in a library until the legal studies that were undertaken on behalf of papal authority that was central to the Gregorian Reform of Pope Gregory VII led to its accidental rediscovery.

Events were held on 6 April, 7 April, 9 April, and 10 April 1896 ( all dates are according to the Gregorian calendar ).

The festival of Eleusinia was celebrated each year in Eleusis and Athens for nine days from the 15th to the 23rd of the month of Boedromion ( in September or October of the Gregorian calendar ); because the festival calendar had 12 lunar months, the celebrations were not strictly calibrated to a year of 365 days.

Many sources incorrectly state the English were the first to declare war on 27 March, a mistake caused by the fact that the English were still using the Julian calendar, then ten days behind the Gregorian calendar in use at the Continent.

This meant that seasonal errors were lower than in the Gregorian calendar.

His compositions during this period were influenced by Anton Webern, Gregorian chant, Indian classical music, Gagaku, and Indonesian gamelan music.

As the Christian reconquista progressed, these chants were almost entirely replaced by the Gregorian standard, once Rome had regained control of the Iberian churches.

Charles Tournemire ( 22 January 1870 – 3 or 4 November 1939 ) was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant.

From the autumn of 1929 until the summer of 1931, each Gregorian calendar year was usually divided into 72 five-day weeks (= 360 days ), three of which were split into two partial weeks by five national holidays.

In a government commission proposed a " Soviet revolutionary calendar " containing twelve 30-day months plus five national holidays that were not part of any month, but it was rejected because it would differ from the Gregorian calendar used by the rest of Europe.

Stating that all months had 30 days between and, the Oxford Companion to the Year ( 1999 ) ' corrected ' Parise's list by specifying that " Lenin Day " was after ( Gregorian ), a two-day " Workers ' First of May " was after ( Gregorian ), two " Industry Days " were after ( Gregorian ), and placed the leap day after ( Gregorian ).

This normally comes around 23-24 March, mostly around the Spring Equinox in Gregorian Calendar.

A revised form of the Julian Calendar, developed by the Serbian astronomer Milutin Milanković, which mostly coincides with the Gregorian one, was finally adopted by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1924 as well as by the autocephalous Church of Greece.

Six masses are based on Gregorian chant, and these are mostly written in a conservative cantus-firmus style.

For example during eight centuries the calendar belonging to the Christian era, which era was taken in use in the 8th century by Bede, was the Julian calendar, but after the year 1582 it was the Gregorian calendar.

This tendency was taken up by the 11th century Gregorian Reform, which aimed at eliminating what it called " Nicolaitism ", that is clerical marriage, which in spite of being theoretically excluded was in fact practised, and concubinage.

# Century: Where is the first two digits of the year, the first summand is to be taken from the centuries ' table below based on the rule: for Gregorian dates ; for Julian dates.

The Augustine Gospels have also been taken to Canterbury for other major occasions: the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1982, and the celebrations in 1997 for the 1, 400th anniversary of the Gregorian mission.

The lessons of the first nocturn at Matins are taken from the Book of Lamentations and are sung to a specific Gregorian reciting tone.

Villette was not interested in the avant-garde direction taken by Boulez's circle, and instead his music drew on influences as eclectic as Gregorian Chant, medieval music, jazz ( he composed an orchestral piece titled Blues ), and Stravinsky.

At Paris, he was influenced by the Gregorian Reform ideals of churchly independence from Monarchical rule.

Gregorian chant is an example of a cappella singing, as is the majority of secular vocal music from the Renaissance.

Due to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, Bealltainn in Scotland was commonly celebrated on 15 May while in Ireland " Old Beltane " or " Old May " began about the night of 11 May.

It is common to display the Gregorian calendar in separate monthly grids of seven columns ( from Monday to Sunday, or Sunday to Saturday depending on which day is considered to start the week-this varies according to country ) and five to six rows ( or rarely, four rows when the month of February contains 28 days beginning on the first day of the week ), with the day of the month numbered in each cell, beginning with 1.

This was known as the Gregorian Reform, which takes its name from Pope Gregory VII, ( 1073 – 85 ).

Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar.

Among the Oriental Orthodox some churches have changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar and the date for Easter as for other fixed and moveable feasts is the same as in the Western church.

* 1753 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.

The Concordat of 1801 re-established the Roman Catholic Church in France with effect from Easter Sunday, 18 April 1802, restoring the names of the days of the week with the ones they had in the Gregorian Calendar, while keeping the rest of the Republican Calendar, and fixing Sunday as the official day of rest and religious celebration.

In the Gregorian calender 1433 AH runs from approximately 26 November 2011 ( evening ) to 14 November 2012 ( evening ).

The term leap year gets its name from the fact that while a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar normally advances one day of the week from one year to the next, in a leap year it will advance two days due to the year's extra day ( thus " leaping over " one of the days in the week ).

He was a member of the Gregorian mission sent from Italy to England to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism, although the date of his arrival is disputed.

Laurence was part of the Gregorian mission originally dispatched from Rome in 595 to convert the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity ; he landed at Thanet, Kent, with Augustine in 597, or, as some sources state, first arrived in 601 and was not a part of the first group of missionaries.

" By the middle of the 9th century, however, a form of neumatic notation began to develop in monasteries in Europe as a mnemonic device for Gregorian chant, using symbols known as neumes ; the earliest surviving musical notation of this type is in the Musica disciplina of Aurelian of Réôme, from about 850.

Mellitus ( died 24 April 624 ) was the first Bishop of London in the Saxon period, the third Archbishop of Canterbury, and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity.

Augustine needed more clergy to join the Gregorian mission that was converting the kingdom of Kent, then ruled by Æthelberht, from paganism to Christianity.

For information about the changeover from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar and the effect on the dating of historical events etc., see Old Style and New Style dates.

The rest of Great Britain changed to Circumcision Style on 1 January preceding the conversion in Great Britain from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar on 3 / 14 September 1752.

The UK tax year still starts on 6 April which is 25 March + 12 days, eleven for the conversion from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar plus a dropped leap day in 1800 not in 1900.

* 1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October.

The modern form of the calendar is a rule-based lunisolar calendar, akin to the Chinese calendar, measuring months defined in lunar cycles as well as years measured in solar cycles, and distinct from the purely lunar Islamic calendar and the almost entirely solar Gregorian calendar.