| Series |
Oxford monographs on music
Oxford monographs on music. ^A256395
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| Contents |
Survey of the liturgical history of Saint-Denis. Martyr, first church, early community ; Divine office in the early centuries ; Monastic community ; Abbot Fulrad (750-84) and the early reforms of the Carolingian liturgists ; Abbot Fulrad and the cult of relics ; Carolingian reforms of the late eighth century: chant and rule ; Abbot Hilduin (814-41) and the Benedictine liturgy ; Abbot Hilduin and the 'new' Saint Denis ; Norman invasions ; Lay abbots and Cluniac reform ; Abbot Suger (1122-51) and the Gothic church ; Late Middle Ages ; Commendatory abbots and dispersion of the library -- Calendar of feasts, anniversaries, and royal observances. Calendar and martyrology ; Ranks of feasts ; Parisian and French feasts ; Early feasts of saints with relics in the church ; Feasts of the twelfth century ; Feasts of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ; Liturgical changes ; Anniversaries ; Reception of the Oriflamme and coronations of queens -- Introduction to liturgy and music at Saint-Denis. Chant tradition ; Alleluias for Sundays after Pentecost ; Responsories for offices of the dead ; Office hymns ; Invitatory ; Gloria Patri of great responsories ; Neumas ; Tropes ; Sequences ; Closing versicles for office and mass -- Interaction of rituual and music with art, architecture, and politics. The Merovingian period ; The eighth century ; The ninth century ; The tenth and eleventh centuries ; The twelfth century ; The thirteenth century ; The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Performance practices, musicians, and liturgists. Singing duties ; Special aspects of performance of the mass and hours ; Instrumental music: the organ ; Musicians and liturgists -- Liturgical sources from Saint-Denis. Introduction ; Catalogue of liturgical sources from Saint-Denis -- Liturgical sources of questionable attribution. Introduction ; Catalogue of liturgical sources of questionable attribution -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. The calendar of Saint-Denis ; Appendix B. Chronology of liturgical sources from Saint-Denis ; Appendix C. Liturgical manuscripts by genre ; Appendix D. Published facsimiles of musical notation ; Appendix E. Music and texts composed at Saint-Denis. |
| Abstract |
A study of the music and ritual at Saint-Denis from the sixth to the sixteenth century, this book is based on an examination of the liturgical books and archival sources relating to the abbey, in particular the surviving service-books, which tell us much about the history of the music and of the Divine Office at Saint-Denis. The author also looks at the tropes and sequences proper to the office for Saint Denis, provides information on the performance practices, instruments, musicians, and liturgists from the abbey, and offers an account of the history of the liturgy from the Council of Torus in 567 to the pillage of the abbey by the Huguenots in 1567, thus explicating the extant liturgical codices from Saint-Denis. A fascinating and wide-ranging study, the author finds that the ritual and history of the abbey is also inextricably linked to the reconstruction of its various buildings, the decorations of the church, and even the monks' ambitions. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-524) and index. |
| LCCN | gb 91003599 |
| ISBN | 0193152541 : |
