Schola Cantorum

Waesberghe, "Schola Cantorum, pp. 115-17, holds that the Schola Cantorum was under Byzantine influence, but that it was linked to a more traditional urban chant and liturgical celebrations in the churches of Rome. Van Dijk, "Urban and Papal Rites, pp. 465-72, on the other hand, asserts that the new Schola Cantorum had nothing to do with the urban liturgical rites of Rome, but was part of the policy of Pope Vitalian to model the papal court on the rich ceremonies of the Byzantine imperial court. 

One caimot demonstrate that the Venetians modeled the music program at the Pieta on the ancient tradition of the Orphanotropheion at Constantinople, nor that they imitated some Western institution closer to home, such as the Schola Cantorum of medieval Rome. Rather, the Pieta emerged fi om a strong Christian tradition of group homes that had emphasized music as part of the educational program in the Byzantine East as well as the Latin West from at least the fifth century. 

Waesberghe, Joseph Smits van. "Neues tiber die Schola Cantorum zu Rom. In Zweiter internationaler Kongressfiir katholische Kirchenmusik (Wien, 4-10 Oktober 19 4), pp. 111-19. Vienna BOhlau, 1955. 

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