Author: Catholic ChurchPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404565305
Category : Chants (Plain, Gregorian, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Winchester Troper
Author: Catholic ChurchPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404565305
Category : Chants (Plain, Gregorian, etc.)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Winchester Troper, from Mss. of the Xth and XIth Centuries
Author: Catholic ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church music
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Making of Liturgy in the Ottonian Church
Author: Henry ParkesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107083028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
A bold re-examination of the religious and political history of Ottonian Germany through its musical and liturgical books.
The Winchester Troper, From Mss. of the Xth and XIth Centuries; With Other Documents Illustrating the History of Tropes in England and France: V.8
Author: Winchester CathedralPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022228955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a rare medieval manuscript from the 10th and 11th centuries that includes Gregorian chants and other liturgical music. The Winchester Troper is a valuable resource for scholars of medieval music and liturgy, offering unique insights into the development of church music in England and France. This edition includes additional documents that provide further context and illumination of the history of tropes. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Medieval Drama
Author: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Los Angeles, Calif.)Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873950855
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The religious medieval drama, like the Church which produced it, was international. As such, from its earliest beginnings in the tenth-century Quem quaeritis to the thirteenth-century Ludi Paschales and Passion Plays, it exhibits a cultural and thematic unity binding the various plays: a thematic unity from the fabric of Christian thought, and a cultural unity from the fact that these productions, at least up to the end of the thirteenth century, generally share a technical-philological medium: the Latin language. In later centuries, this religious drama expressed in the vernacular remained an act of faith; its purpose being to strengthen the faith of the worshippers and to express in visible, dramatic terms the facts and values of Christian belief. These essays were, in their original form, addressed to the third annual conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. The work of international authorities on the medieval drama, they span many centuries and bear witness to the growth of the religious dramatic form and of the dramatic movement and temper of the liturgy in which that form finds its origin. Omer Jodogne establishes a difference, on the aesthetic level, between dramatic works and their theatrical performance by pointing out that the surviving texts, whether they were meant for reading or for a theatrical performance, reproduce only what was said on the stage, and, succinctly, what was done. Wolfgang Michael suggests that the first medieval drama did not originate in a slow growth from the Easter trope Quem quaeritis but was rather an original creation of the author or authors of the Concordia Regularis. He indicates that subsequent dramatic endeavors in their slow process of change and expansion reflect the working of tradition rather than an original spirit and form. Sandro Sticca examines the creation of the first Passion Play and shows that Christ's passion became increasingly popular in the tenth century, and that the new forces which allowed a more eloquent and humane visualization and description of Christ's anguish first appeared in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He also refutes the traditional view that the Planctus Mariae is the germinal point of the Latin Passion Play. V. A. Kolve seeks to account for certain central facts about Everyman which have never had close critical attention. He analyzes the Biblical and Patristic references within which the story is shaped and which are central to the understanding of other actions and to determining the meaning of the play. Glynn Wickham, after exploding on the evidence of reference alone the old categorizing of English Saint Plays as by-products or late developments of Mysteries and Moralities, turns to a critical discussion of the three surviving texts of English Saint Plays and of their original staging by means of diagrammatic illustrations providing a vivid visualization of their performance. William Smolden takes an unaccustomed approach to the controversial question of the origins of the Quem quaeritis. He maintains that when musical evidence is called on, it brings about, on a number of occasions, a confutation of the theory of a "textual" writer. From a detailed consideration of the two earliest Quem quaeritis he feels convinced that the place of origin of the trope was the Abbey of St. Martial of Limoges.
The Winchester Troper
Author: Walter Howard FrerePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781390221886
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 370
Book Description
Excerpt from The Winchester Troper: From Mss. Of The Xth And Xith Centuries; With Other Documents Illustrating The History Of Tropes in England And France Every new movement brings with it the signs of its own decay, and while on the one hand the jubila were becoming more and more popular owing to the desire for melodies without words, (combined no doubt with a mistaken wish to enrich and embellish the old chant). On the other hand these same jubila were being fitted with words, which were found to be necessary, or at least desirable, owing to the difficulty of remembering the melodies without them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Liturgy in Medieval England
Author: Richard W. PfaffPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139482920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 623
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive historical treatment of the Latin liturgy in medieval England. Richard Pfaff constructs a history of the worship carried out in churches - cathedral, monastic, or parish - primarily through the surviving manuscripts of service books, and sets this within the context of the wider political, ecclesiastical, and cultural history of the period. The main focus is on the mass and daily office, treated both chronologically and by type, the liturgies of each religious order and each secular 'use' being studied individually. Furthermore, hagiographical and historiographical themes - respectively, which saints are prominent in a given witness and how the labors of scholars over the last century and a half have both furthered and, in some cases, impeded our understandings - are explored throughout. The book thus provides both a narrative account and a reference tool of permanent value.
The Winchester Troper ; from MSS. of the Xth and XIth Centuries
Author: Walter Howard FrerePublisher:
ISBN: 9783337202873
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Winchester Troper; from MSS. of the Xth and XIth Centuries - With other Documents Illustrating the History of Tropes in England.... is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Western Plainchant
Author: David HileyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198165729
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.
The Cambridge History of Medieval Music
Author: Mark EveristPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108577075
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Spanning a millennium of musical history, this monumental volume brings together nearly forty leading authorities to survey the music of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. All of the major aspects of medieval music are considered, making use of the latest research and thinking to discuss everything from the earliest genres of chant, through the music of the liturgy, to the riches of the vernacular song of the trouvères and troubadours. Alongside this account of the core repertory of monophony, The Cambridge History of Medieval Music tells the story of the birth of polyphonic music, and studies the genres of organum, conductus, motet and polyphonic song. Key composers of the period are introduced, such as Leoninus, Perotinus, Adam de la Halle, Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut, and other chapters examine topics ranging from musical theory and performance to institutions, culture and collections.