Mozarabic chant (also known as
Hispanic chant,
Old Hispanic chant,
Old Spanish chant, or
Visigothic chant) is the liturgical
plainchant repertory of the
Mozarabic rite of the
Roman Catholic Church, related to the
Gregorian chant. It is primarily associated with
Hispania under
Visigothic rule (mainly in what was to become modern
Spain) and with the Catholic
Mozarabs living under
Muslim rule, and was soon replaced by the chant of the
Roman rite following the Christian
Reconquest. Although its original medieval form is largely lost, a few chants have survived with readable musical notation, and the chanted rite was later revived in altered form and continues to be used in a few isolated locations in Spain, primarily in
Toledo.