| Series |
Cambridge studies in music
Cambridge studies in music. ^A252129
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| Contents |
[Part] I: Introduction -- The church, the clergy, and the cloister. The church ; The clergy ; The cloister -- [Part] II: Chant and liturgy -- Aspects of Parisian chant and liturgy. Traces of a Gallican liturgy ; Vestiges of Gallican chant ; Carolingian reform and the beginnings of a Parisian usage within the Roman rite ; Development of the Parisian calendar ; The feasts of the high Middle Ages ; The Parisian kyriale -- The shape of the liturgy in the Late Middle Ages. Placement of the clergy ; The ferial psalter ; The schedule of the divine offices ; The evening service : festal Vespers and Compline ; The night service : festal Matins and Lauds ; The morning service: lesser hours and high mass ; The feasts of the Late Middle Ages ; Votive masses ; Confraternal services -- [Part] III: The wondrous machine -- The organ. The organists ; The musical repertoire -- [Part] IV: Personnal and institutions -- The choirboys. Administration ; Masters of music ; Education ; Duties and musical repertoire -- The church and the court. The Carolingian Laudes regiae ; The coronation of Henry VI of England at Notre Dame ; The Renaissance king: Francis I -- [Part] V: Repertoire, composers, and performance -- Gothic polyphony. Polyphony for Christmas week ; The Magnus liber organi of Leoninus and its place of origin ; The diffusion of organa within the liturgy of Notre Dame ; The dissemination of the Magnus liber organi beyond Paris: an hypothesis -- Composers. Adam Precentor (olim Adam of St. Victor) ; Magister Albertus Stampensis: precentor Parisiensis ; Magister Leoninus ; Magister Perotinus Magnus (Petrus Succentor?) ; Philip the Chancellor ; Philippe de Vitry ; Billard, Benôit, and Grossin ; Johannes Ockeghem ; Loyset Compère and Antoine de Longueval ; Antoine Brumel ; Louis van Pullaer ; Pierre Certon and Mathieu Sohier -- Traditions of musical performance. The image of the choir ; Memory ; Visual aids ; Organum ; Discant, res facta, and counterpoint -- [Part] VI: Conclusion -- Change and continuity. |
| Abstract |
This book is a history of the early musical life of the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame. All aspects of the musical establishment of Notre Dame are covered, from Merovingian times to the period of the wars of religion in France. Nine discrete essays discuss the history of Parisian chant and liturgy and the pattern and structure of the cathedral services in the late Middle Ages; Notre Dame polyphony and the composers most closely associated with the cathedral, among them Leoninus, Perotinus and Philippe de Vitry; the organ and its repertoire; the choir, the musical education and performing traditions; and the relationship of the cathedral to the court. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 376-390) and index. |
| LCCN | 88029924 |
| ISBN | 0521244927 |
