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Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants: Psalmi, Threni and the Easter Vigil Canticles
Professor Emma Hornby
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The tradition of Old Hispanic liturgical chant is here examined through a new methodology, enabling striking new insights into its use. Medieval Iberian liturgical practice was independent of the Roman liturgy. As such, its sources preserve an unfamiliar and fascinating devotional journey through the liturgical year. However, although Old Hispanic liturgical chanthas long been considered one of the most important medieval chant traditions, what musical notation to survive shows only where the melodies rise and fall, not precise intervals or pitches. This lack of pitch-readable notation has prevented scholars from fully engaging with the surviving sources - a gap ... Read more
The tradition of Old Hispanic liturgical chant is here examined through a new methodology, enabling striking new insights into its use. Medieval Iberian liturgical practice was independent of the Roman liturgy. As such, its sources preserve an unfamiliar and fascinating devotional journey through the liturgical year. However, although Old Hispanic liturgical chanthas long been considered one of the most important medieval chant traditions, what musical notation to survive shows only where the melodies rise and fall, not precise intervals or pitches. This lack of pitch-readable notation has prevented scholars from fully engaging with the surviving sources - a gap ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843838142
SKU
V9781843838142
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Reviews for Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants: Psalmi, Threni and the Easter Vigil Canticles
Hornby and Maloy's deep excavation into the Old Hispanic chant repertoire provides the kind of serious, detailed scholarship that is so essential to understanding medieval culture in all its complexity.
RELIGION AND THE ARTS
Hornby and Maloy have successfully challenged long-standing assumptions about Old Hispanic liturgies and have provided a wealth of readings of its texts, enriched by ... Read more
RELIGION AND THE ARTS
Hornby and Maloy have successfully challenged long-standing assumptions about Old Hispanic liturgies and have provided a wealth of readings of its texts, enriched by ... Read more