| Contents |
Afterthoughts on The Origins of the Liturgical Year / Thomas J. Talley -- The desert, the city and psalmody in the late fourth century / Joseph Dyer -- Monastic reading and the emerging Roman chant repertory / Peter Jeffery -- Songs of exile, songs of pilgrimage / Nancy van Deusen -- The geography of Martinmas / 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 / László 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 F 11: 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 German print culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Theodore Karp -- Modal neumes at Sens / Thomas Forrest Kelly -- Singing the Nuance in communion antiphons / Richard Crocker. |
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Accompanying CD contents: Gregorian Communion antiphons for Advent and Christmas: Dominus dabit benignitatem V. Ostende nobis ; Ierusalem surge V. Qui regis Israel ; Dicite pusillanimes V. Cantate Domino ; Ecce virgo concipiet V. Exultavit ut gigas ; Ecce Dominus veniet V. Beati immaculati ; Exultavit ut gigas V. In sole posuit ; Revelabitur Gloria Domini V. Ipse super maria ; In splendoribus sanctorum V. Donec ponam ; Exulta filia Sion V. Etenim firmavit ; Viderunt omnes V. Notum fecit Dominus ; Video caelos / Exiit sermo / Vox in Rama / Beatus servus ; Tolle puerum / Vidimus stellam / Fili quid fecisti / Dicit Dominus / Mirabantur omnes -- Roman propers for a Nuptial Mass: Deus Irael (antiphon at the Introit), with V. Beati omnes, Gloria Patri, V. Uxor tua sicut vitis ; Uxor tua (Gradual responsory), with V. Filii tui ; Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia ; In te speravi (Offertory) and Ecce sic benedicetur (Communion antiphon) -- Versions of the Communion antiphon Oportet te fili gaudere: Oportet te (seven versions) ; Oportet te (five versions) -- Alleluia with sequential, Sequence, and prose: Alleluia. Confitemini Domino et invocate (Gregorian) plus sequentia / O quam mire (Notker) ; Sequence with prose Carmen suo dilecto (Notker). |
| Abstract |
Taking up questions and issues in early chant studies, this volume of essays addresses some of the topics raised in James McKinnon's The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass, the last book before his untimely death in February 1999. 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, nuances of early chant performance (with accompanying downloadable resources), musical style and liturgical structure in the early Divine Office, and new sources for Old-Roman chant. Western Plainchant in the First Millenium offers new information and new insights about a period of crucial importance in the growth of the liturgy and music of the Western Church. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-496) and indexes. |
| Performer |
Music on accompanying disc sung by Richard Crocker. |
| Language | Music on accompanying disc sung in Latin. |
| LCCN | 2001048706 |
| ISBN | 075460389X (alk. paper) |
