[PDF] Gregorian Chant And The Carolingians eBook

Author : Kenneth Levy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0691221936

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A world-renowned scholar of plainchant, Kenneth Levy has spent a portion of his career investigating the nature and ramifications of this repertory's shift from an oral tradition to the written versions dating to the tenth century. In Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians, which represents the culmination of his research, Levy seeks to change long-held perceptions about certain crucial stages of the evolution and dissemination of the old corpus of plainchant--most notably the assumption that such a large and complex repertory could have become and remained fixed for over a century while still an oral tradition. Levy portrays the promulgation of an authoritative body of plainchant during the reign of Charlemagne by clearly differentiating between actual evidence, hypotheses, and received ideas. How many traditions of oral chant existed before the tenth century? Among the variations noted in written chant, can one point to a single version as being older or more authentic than the others? What precursors might there have been to the notational system used in all the surviving manuscripts, where the notational system seems fully formed and mature? In answering questions that have long vexed many scholars of Gregorian chant's early history, Levy offers fresh explanations of such topics as the origin of Latin neumes, the shifting relationships between memory and early notations, and the puzzling differences among the first surviving neume-species from the tenth century, which have until now impeded a critical restoration of the Carolingian musical forms.

Author : David Hiley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316224376

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What is Gregorian chant, and where does it come from? What purpose does it serve, and how did it take on the form and features which make it instantly recognizable? Designed to guide students through this key topic, this book answers these questions and many more. David Hiley describes the church services in which chant is performed, takes the reader through the church year, explains what Latin texts were used, and, taking Worcester Cathedral as an example, describes the buildings in which it was sung. The history of chant is traced from its beginnings in the early centuries of Christianity, through the Middle Ages, the revisions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the restoration in the nineteenth and twentieth. Using numerous music examples, the book shows how chants are made and how they were notated. An indispensable guide for all those interested in the fascinating world of Gregorian chant.

Author : Caroline Goodson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521768195

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A exploration of Paschal I's building campaign that illuminates the relationship between the material world and political power in medieval Rome.

Author : Emma Hornby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351754017

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This title was first published in 2002: This text uses detailed analysis of the eigth-mode tracts in addressing some of the still unresolved questions of chant scholarship. The first question is that of the nature of the relationship between Old Roman and Gregorian chant, the second, of the relationship between oral and written modes of transmission in the ecclesiastical culture of the Middle Ages. Also, the Middle Ages saw a transition to a culture more dependent on writing. The book investigates the effect this transition had on the way eighth-mode tracts were understood by those who performed and notated them.

Author : Rebecca Maloy
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2010-03-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195315170

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The offertory has played a key role in the recent debates about the origins of Gregorian chant. This book offers a comprehensive study of the offertory, considering the music, lyrics, and liturgical history to shed new light on its origins and chronology.

Author : Richard L. Crocker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300083101

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Richard L. Crocker offers in this book and its accompanying compact disc an introduction to the history and meaning of the Gregorian chant. He explains how Gregorian chant began, what functions and meanings it had over time, who heard it and where, and how it was composed, learned, written down and handed on. Crocker explains Gregorian chant and its functions within modern catholic liturgy as well as its position outside this liturgy, where the modern listener may hear it just as music. He describes the origins of the chant in the early Middle Ages, details its medieval development and use, and considers how it survived without, and later with, musical notation. The author probes the paradoxical position of the chant in monastic life -- serving as an expression of liturgical fellowship on the one hand and as the medium of solitary mystic ascent on the other. The book also includes a detailed commentary on each of twenty-six complete chants performed by the Orlando Consort and by the author on the accompanying compact disc. --From publisher's description.

Author : Susan Rankin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1108421407

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This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

Author : Jordan Timothy Ray Baker
Publisher :
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2012
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Following the Christianization of the crumbling Roman Empire, a wide array of disparate Christian traditions arose. A confusion of liturgical rites and musical styles expressed the diversity of this nascent Christendom; however, it also exemplified a sometimes threatening disunity. Into this frame, the Carolingian Empire made a decisive choice. Charlemagne, with a desire to consolidate power, forged stronger bonds with Rome by transporting the liturgy of Rome to the Frankish North. The outcome of this transmission was the birth of a composite form of music exhibiting the liturgical properties of Rome but also shaped by the musical sensibilities of the Franks--Gregorian chant. This Frankish project of liturgical adoption and the appearance of Gregorian chant raises two important questions: How did the Carolingians transmit and incorporate Roman chant, and why did they feel drawn to this tradition in the first place? This thesis utilizes musicological studies by scholars like Leo Treitler and Anna Maria Busse Burger, epistemological arguments by analytic philosopher Richard Fumerton, and memorial scholarship by Mary Carruthers and Maurice Halbwachs to provide an analysis of Gregorian chant's emergence. My investigation into the medieval art of memoria reveals that chant was transmitted through the use of the principles of music theory as mnemonic devices. Modal theory itself becomes a mnemonic by creating an abstract musical location in which the singer and listener can meet. Further, the impulse that drove this project was the desire for a collective memory that would resolve underlying tensions of group identity within 8th- and 9th-century early Christendom. This desire finds its resolution in modal theory itself because the musical location of chant is also a public location where corporate identity is articulated. Finally, I interpret both musical and memorial functions of chant via epistemic scholarship, showing that they both exhibit a remarkable structural similarity to the principles of acquaintance epistemology, thus unifying the questions of "how" and "why" in chant into a single answer. The quest for self-knowledge becomes part of the particular object used to make it---a material testament to a way of knowing.