Gregorian Chant: Music for Meditation?

Aurelio Porfiri

You may have seen proposals in which Gregorian chant is presented as "music for meditation". To many this seems like an exaltation of Gregorian chant, almost a recovery of its important function after too many years of neglect and ostracism. Added to this are all those theories that see Gregorian chant as beneficial to health or that it makes cows produce more milk and so on.