Understanding the Old Hispanic Office - Texts, Melodies, and Devotion in Early Medieval Iberia

List of contents

1. The Old Hispanic office: evidence and silence Kati Ihnat; 2. The liturgical year in the Old Hispanic rite Raquel Rojo Carrillo and Emma Hornby; 3. Old Hispanic liturgical manuscripts Emma Hornby and Raquel Rojo Carrillo; 4. Old Hispanic genres: chants, prayers and readings Emma Hornby and Raquel Rojo Carrillo; 5. The Old Hispanic liturgical day Emma Hornby and Raquel Rojo Carrillo; 6. Old Hispanic musical notation: its characteristics and an analytical methodology Emma Hornby, Rebecca Maloy and Raquel Rojo Carrillo; 7. Melodic language in Old Hispanic chant: illustrating an analytical methodology Emma Hornby and Rebecca Maloy; 8. Text, melody and theology in the Old Hispanic Marian office Kati Ihnat and Rebecca Maloy.

About the author

Emma Hornby is Professor of Music at the University of Bristol. As Principal Investigator, she directed the ERC-funded Old Hispanic Office research project that formed the basis of this book.Kati Ihnat is an Assistant Professor of History at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, specialising in the religious cultures of the Middle Ages.Rebecca Maloy is professor of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of three monographs, most recently Songs of Sacrifice, on the Old Hispanic offertory.Raquel Rojo Carrillo is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Music. Her research focuses on medieval Iberian plainchant.

Summary

Incorporating notational, musical, theological and historical perspectives, this path-breaking study brings Old Hispanic chant into the mainstream of medieval music studies. Based on new methodologies for working with early medieval liturgy from Spain, it introduces this distinctive body of manuscripts, services and liturgical genres.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Hornby, Emma (University of Bristol) Hornby, Emma (University of Bristol) Ihnat Hornby, Kati Ihnat, Kati (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Ihnat, Ihnat Kati, Rebecca Maloy, Rebecca (University of Colorado Boulder) Maloy, Maloy Rebecca, Raquel Rojo Carrillo, Raquel (University of Cambridge) Rojo Carrillo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781108845892
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84589-2
• No. of pages: 450
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; History, HISTORY / General, RELIGION / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, Archaeology, Renaissance style, History and Archaeology, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Medieval style, Western "classical" music