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

  • Author: Gallagher, Sean
This volume provides a window onto the central questions being addressed by some of the most distinguished scholars working on western chant. Essential reading for specialists, it has plenty... More…

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Contents

  • Contents: Preface
  • Afterthoughts on The Origins of the Liturgical Year, Thomas J. Talley
  • The desert, the city, and psalmody in the late 4th century, Joseph Dyer
  • Monastic reading and the emerging Roman chant repertory, Peter Jeffrey
  • Songs of exile, songs of pilgrimage, Nancy van Deusen
  • The geography of martinmass, Alejandro Enrique Planchart
  • Style and structure in early offices of the Sanctorale, David Hiley
  • From the advent project to the late Middle Ages: Some issues of transmission, David G. Hughes
  • Glosses on music and grammar and the advent of music writing in the west, Charles M. Atkinson
  • Concerning a chronology for chant, LA!szlA(3) Dobszay
  • Tollite portas: an Ante-Evangelium reclaimed?, Kenneth Levy
  • The diagrams interpolated into the Musica Isidori and the scale of old Hispanic chant, Michel Huglo
  • Old Roman votive-mass chants in Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MSS 299 and 300 and Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Archivio San Pietro F11: a source study, John Boe
  • Reading the melodies of the old Roman mass proper: a hypothesis defended, Edward Nowacki
  • 'Epulari autem et gaudere oportebat', Ruth Steiner
  • From alleluia to sequence: some definitions of relations, Calvin M. Bower
  • Some Notkerian sequences in Germanic print culture of the 15th & 16th centuries, Theodore Karp
  • Modal Neumes at Sens, Thomas Forrest Kelly
  • Singing the nuance in Communion antiphons, Richard Crocker
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes.