Chants, Hypertext, and Prosulas - Re-Texting the Proper of the Mass in Beneventan Manuscripts

Chants, Hypertext, and Prosulas presents the first comprehensive study to integrate textual and musical analyses of liturgical prosulas as they were recorded in medieval Beneventan manuscripts.

List of contents

• Foreword


• Acknowledgements


• Part 1


• Chapter 1. Prosulas: General features, history and scholarship


• Chapter 2. Prosulas in manuscripts


• 2.1 Prosulas in Beneventan Manuscripts: The earliest stages


• 2.2 Manuscripts from Benevento


• 2.3 Manuscripts from Other Regional Centres


• 2.4 Other Fragmentary Sources


• 2.5 Extra regional concordances


• Part 2. Prosulas and their Formal Features


• Chapter 3. Formal Features and Notation


• 3.1 Prosulas and Their Texts


• 3.2 The Notating of Prosulas


• 3.3 Notation


• Chapter 4. Prosulas for Graduals and Tracts


• 4.1 The Gradual


• 4.2 The Tract


• Chapter 5. Prosulas for Alleluia and Offertories


• 5.1 The Alleluia


• 5.2 The Offertory


• Part 3. Prosulas and the Liturgical Year


• Chapter 6. General remarks


• Chapter 7. Feasts of the Temporal


• Chapter 8. Feasts of the Sanctoral


• 8.1 Prosulas of the Oldest Lombard Sanctoral


• 8.2 Prosulas and the Miliey of the Cathedrals and Urban Monasteries


• Index

About the author

Luisa Nardini is Associate Professor of Musicology at The University of Texas at Austin.

Summary

Chants, Hypertext, and Prosulas presents the first comprehensive study to integrate textual and musical analyses of liturgical prosulas as they were recorded in medieval Beneventan manuscripts.

Additional text

Nardini greatly enhances future research and directions on this repertory and provides a model and standard for similar scholarship to emulate.

Product details

• Authors: Nardini , Luisa Nardini, Luisa (Associate Professor of Musicology Nardini
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780197514139
• ISBN: 978-0-19-751413-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Music, RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, MUSIC / Religious / Christian, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Religion: general, Christianity, Renaissance style, Christian liturgy, prayerbooks & hymnals, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Medieval style, Prayers and liturgical material, Sacred and religious music, Sacred & Religious Music, Western "classical" music