Chant and its Origins

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Part I General Overviews of Scholarship: Gregorian studies in the 21st century, Richard Crocker
• Writings on Western plainchant in the 1980s and 1990s, David Hiley. Part II Early History: Jerusalem and Rome (and Constantinople): the musical heritage of 2 great cities in the formation of the medieval chant traditions, Peter Jeffery
• The singing of psalms in the early-medieval office, Joseph Dyer
• The 8th-century Frankish-Roman communion cycle, James McKinnon. Part III Editions and Repertories: The critical edition of the Roman gradual by the monks of Solesmes, Jacques Froger
• Research on the antiphoner - problems and perspectives, Hartmut MAller. Part IV Analytical studies: Some remarks on Jean Claire's octoechoes, LA!szlA(3) Dobszay
• The offertory chant of the Roman liturgy and its musical form, Joseph Dyer
• The Gregorian office antiphons and the comparative method, Edward Nowacki. Part V Roman and Frankish Chant: The central problem of Gregorian chant, Willi Apel
• Die Entstehung des gregorianischen Chorals, Bruno StAblein
• The question of the 'old-Roman' chant: a reappraisal, Paul F. Cutter
• Papal schola versus Charlemagne, S.J.P. van Dijk
• Introits and archetypes: some archaisms of the old Roman chant, Thomas H. Connolly
• Towards a new historical view of Gregorian chant, Helmut Hucke
• Gregorian chant and the Romans, Kenneth Levy
• Remarks on Roman and non-Roman offertories, Andreas Pfisterer. Part VI Other Chant Traditions: The development and chronology of the Ambrosian sanctorale: the evidence of the antiphon texts, Terence Bailey
• The Beneventan chant, Thomas Forrest Kelly
• The old Hispanic rite as evidence for the earliest forms of the Western Christian liturgies, Don M. Randel
• Index.