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Part 1 Emerging and converging textual traditions: liturgical psalmody in the sermons of St Augustine - an introduction, James W. McKinnon; the first Marian feast in Constantinople and Jerusalem - chant texts, readings, and homiletic literature, Margot Fassler; the cantatorium - from Charlemagne to the 14th century, Michel Huglo; a new folio for MS Chilandari 307, with some observations on the contents of the Slavic Lenten Sticherarion and Pentekostarion, Nicolas Schidlovskt. Part 2 Mode and melos: the modes before the modes - antiphon and differentia in western chant, Keith Falconer; the earliest oktoechoi - the role of Jerusalem and Palestine in the beginnings of modal ordering, Peter Jeffery; Guido's "Tritus" - an aspect of chant style, David G. Hughes. Part 3 Turning points in the history of the neumatic notations: early ekphonetic notation in the manuscripts Scheide 2 at Princeton University, Sysse Gudrun Engberg; the other "modus" - on the theory and practice of intervals in the 11th and 12th centuries, Charles M. Atkinson; Russian musical azbuki - a turning point in the history of Slavonic chant, Milos Velimirovic. Part 4 Case studies in melodic transmission: Kontakion melodies in oral and written tradition, Jorgen Raasted; on the verses of the offertory "Elegerunt", Ruth Steiner; the trisagion in some Byzantine and Slavonic stichera, Dimitrije Stefanovic; proses in the sources of Roman chant, and their alleluias, Alejandro Planchart. Indexes: of manuscripts; of chant incipits; general.
