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Rebecca Maloy's
Songs of Sacrifice argues that liturgical music--both texts and melodies--played a central role in the cultural renewal of early Medieval Iberia, with a chant repertory that was carefully designed to help build a society unified in the Nicene faith.
List of contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Old Hispanic Chant and the Visigothic Context
- CHAPTER 1
- The Sacrificium
- CHAPTER 2
- Liturgy, Patristic Learning, and Christian Formation
- CHAPTER 3
- From Scripture to Chant: Biblical Exegesis and Communal Identity in the Sacrificia
- CHAPTER 4
- The Melodic Language
- CHAPTER 5
- Sounding Prophecy: Words and Music in the Sacrificia
- CHAPTER 6
- The Broader Old Hispanic Tradition: Aspects of Melodic Transmission
- CHAPTER 7
- Connections beyond Hispania
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX
- Manuscripts with Sacrificia and Their Sigla
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF CHANTS
- GENERAL INDEX
About the author
Rebecca Maloy is Professor of Music and the University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in plainsong, liturgy and ritual, and the theory and analysis of early music. She is the author of Inside the Offertory: Aspects of Chronology and Transmission (2010), the co-author, with Emma Hornby, of Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants (2013), and the co-editor, with Daniel J. DiCenso, of Chant, Liturgy, and the Inheritance of Rome (2017). Her current and recent work has been supported by funding from the European Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Summary
Rebecca Maloy's Songs of Sacrifice argues that liturgical music--both texts and melodies--played a central role in the cultural renewal of early Medieval Iberia, with a chant repertory that was carefully designed to help build a society unified in the Nicene faith.
Additional text
Songs of Sacrificewill help to transform understandings of the religious culture of Visigothic Iberia. It demonstrates convincingly how the theological and pastoral writings of bishops found expression in the liturgy as part of a concerted effort to make a truly orthodox Christian society.
