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The founding and establishment of the Dominican order of friars was one of the defining developments of the first half of the thirteenth century. After a period of rapid growth and spread, the order set about establishing and promulgating forms of worship for use in all of its communities. This liturgy became highly influential and was used well beyond the Dominicans' own churches. This book considers the making of the Dominican liturgy and its chant from two perspectives: first, the material production of Dominican liturgical books, and second, the crafting of a unique Dominican liturgical tradition. This is explored through the microcosm of three thirteenth-century exemplars, which acted as a blueprint for the Dominican liturgy for centuries to come. This study of the physical and conceptual making of the liturgy, considered in dialogue, illuminates the development of the Dominican liturgy, granting us new insights into the practices and values of those involved.
List of contents
Introduction; Part I. Historical Contexts and Manuscripts: 1. The Dominican liturgy in the thirteenth century; 2. The Dominican liturgical exemplars; Part II. Making Dominican Liturgical Books: 3. Book copying and text scribes; 4. Musical notation and notators; 5. Dominican book production in Paris; Part III. Making Dominican Chant and Liturgy: 6. The calendar; 7. The mass; 8. The divine office; 9. Melody and mode; 10. The making of the Dominican liturgy and its chant; Appendices: Appendix 1. A handlist of thirteenth-century Dominican liturgical books; Appendix 2. A handlist of Dominican manuscripts containing Omnis Cantus Ecclesiasticus; Appendix 3. Synoptic table of the exemplars; Appendix 4. Codicological tables for the exemplars; Appendix 5. The Dominican calendar; Appendix 6. The Dominican litany; Appendix 7. Characteristic chants of the mass; Appendix 8. Characteristic chants of the office; Index of manuscripts; Index of chant incipits; General Index; Bibliography.
About the author
Eleanor J. Giraud is Associate Professor of Ritual Chant and Song at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. She has coedited A Companion to the English Dominican Province (2021) and The Medieval Dominicans: Books, Buildings, Music, and Liturgy (2021). She sourced and transcribed medieval chant for the primetime BBC One documentary 'Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family', broadcast in 2019.
