Western Plainchant in the First Millennium: Studies in the Medieval Liturgy and its Music

by Haar,James; Gallagher,Sean

• ISBN13: 9780754603894
• ISBN10: 075460389X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A distinguished group of chant scholars examine the formation of the liturgy, issues of theory and notation, and Carolingian and post-Carolingian chant. Special studies include the origins of musical notations, the nuances of early chant performance, musical style and liturgical structure in the early Divine Office, and new sources for Old-Roman chant.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	ix
List of Figures	x
List of Tables	xi
List of Music Examples	xiii
Contents of the Compact Disc	xv
Preface	xvi
Abbreviations	xviii
1 Afterthoughts on The Origins of the Liturgical Year	1	(10)
Thomas J. Talleg
2 The Desert, the City and Psalmody in the Late Fourth Century	11	(34)
Joseph Dyer
3 Monastic Reading and the Emerging Roman Chant Repertory	45	(60)
Peter Jeffery
4 Songs of Exile, Songs of Pilgrimage	105	(14)
Nancy van Deusen
5 The Geography of Martinmas	119	(38)
Alejandro Enrique Planchart
6 Style and Structure in Early Offices of the Sanctorale	157	(24)
David Hileg
7 From the Advent Project to the Late Middle Ages: Some Issues of Transmission	181	(18)
David G. Hughes
8 Glosses on Music and Grammar and the Advent of Music Writing in the West	199	(18)
Charles M. Atkinson
9 Concerning a Chronology for Chant	217	(14)
László Dobszag
10 Tollite portas: An Ante-Evangelium Reclaimed?	231	(12)
Kenneth Levy
11 The Diagrams Interpolated into the Musica Isidori and the Scale of Old Hispanic Chant	243	(18)
Michel Huglo
12 Old Roman Votive-Mass Chants in Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MSS 299 and 300 and Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Archivio San Pietro F 11: A Source Study	261	(58)
Julia Boe
13 Reading the Melodies of the Old Roman Mass Proper: A Hypothesis Defended	319	(12)
Edward Nowicki
14 'Epulari autem et gaudere oportebat'	331	(20)
Ruth Steiner
15 From Alleluia to Sequence: Some Definitions of Relations	351	(48)
Calvin M. Bower
16 Some Notkerian Sequences in Germanic Print Culture of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries	399	(30)
Theodore Karp
17 Modal Neumel at Sens	429	(24)
Thomas Forrest Kelly
18 Singing the Nuance in Communion Antiphons	453	(8)
Richard Crocker
Bibliography	461	(36)
Index of Manuscripts	497	(6)
Incipits Index	503	(8)
General Index	511