Brewer's: Ambrosian Chant

The choral music introduced from the Eastern to the Western Church by St. Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan, in the fourth century. It was used till Gregory the Great changed it for the Gregorian.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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