Medieval liturgical chant and patristic exegesis : words and music in the second-mode tracts /

How do text and melody relate in western liturgical chant? Is the music simply an abstract vehicle for the text, or does it articulate textual structure and meaning? These questions are addressed here through a case study of the second-mode tracts, length.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hornby, Emma, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2009.
Series:Studies in medieval and Renaissance music ; 9.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Liturgy.
Église catholique > Liturgie.
Catholic Church
600-1500
Chants > History and criticism.
Lenten music.
Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Religious thought > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Chant > Histoire et critique.
Carême, Musique du.
Église > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Pensée religieuse > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Voice.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
Chants
Church history > Middle Ages
Lenten music
Liturgics
Religious thought > Middle Ages
Liturgischer Gesang
Text
Musik
Exegese
Patristik
Tractus
Hypodorischer Kirchenton
Quelle
Fränkisches Reich
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; A NOTE ON THE MUSICAL TRANSCRIPTIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. The Origins of the Second-Mode Tract Texts; 2. Psalter Divisions per cola et commata and Textual Grammar in the Structure of the Second-Mode Tracts; 3. The Musical Grammar of the Second-Mode Tracts; 4. Responses to Textual Meaning in the Second-Mode Tract Melodies; 5. Genre and the Second-Mode Tracts; 6. Eripe me and the Frankish Understanding of the Second-Mode Tracts in the Early-Ninth Century.

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