[PDF] Two Cambrai Antiphoners eBook

Author : Margot E. Fassler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2000-08-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195352382

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The Divine Office--the cycle of daily worship other than the Mass--is the richest source of liturgical texts and music from the Latin Middle Ages. However, its richness, the great diversity of its manuscripts, and its many variations from community to community have made it difficult to study, and it remains largely unexplored terrain. This volume is a practical guide to the Divine Office for students and scholars throughout the field of medieval studies. The book surveys the many questions related to the Office and presents the leading analytical tools and research methods now used in the field. Beginning with the Office in the early Middle Ages, the book covers manuscript sources and their contents; regional developments and variations; the relationship between the Office, the Mass, and other ceremonies and repertories; and the deep links between the Office and medieval hagiography. The book concludes with a discussion of recent technical advances for handling the enormous amounts of evidence on the Office and its performance, in particular CANTUS, the vast electronic database developed by Ruth Steiner of Catholic University for the analysis of chant repertories. The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages is an essential resource for anyone studying medieval liturgy. Its accessible style and broad coverage make it an important basic reference for a wide range of students and scholars in art history, religious studies, social history, literature, musicology, and theology.

Author : Matthew S. Champion
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 022651479X

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Over the course of the fifteenth century, the Low Countries transformed Europe's economic, political and cultural life. Innovative and influential cultural practices emerged across the region in flourishing courts, towns, religious houses, guilds and confraternities. Whether in visual culture, music, devotional practice, or communal rituals, the thriving cultures of the Low Countries wrestled with time, both through explicit measurement and reflection, and in the rhythms of social and religious life. This book offers a deeper understanding of how time was structured and experienced by different constituencies through a series of detailed readings of diverse cultural objects and practices, ranging from woodcuts and painted altarpieces, to early print books, and to the use of polyphony in the liturgy. Individual chapters are devoted to life in the university towns of Louvain and Ghent, the liturgical rituals at Cambrai Cathedral, and the rich pageantry that marked the courts of Philip the Good and the new Burgundian rulers. What emerges is a complex temporal landscape in which devotional and secular practices and experiences merged into a new "fullness of time."

Author : Sarah Ann Long
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Confraternities
ISBN : 1580469965

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The first study focusing on the composition of new plainchant in northern-French confraternities for masses and offices in honor of saints thought to have healing powers

Author : Alejandro Enrique Planchart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1313 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108547702

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This volume explores the work of one of medieval music's most important figures, and in so doing presents an extended panorama of musical life in Europe at the end of the middle ages. Guillaume Du Fay rose from obscure beginnings to become the most significant composer of the fifteenth century, a man courted by kings and popes, and this study of his life and career provides a detailed examination of his entire output, including a number of newly discovered works. As well as offering musical analysis, this volume investigates his close association with the Cathedral of Cambrai, and explores how, at a time when music was becoming increasingly professionalised, Du Fay forged his own identity as 'a composer'. This detailed biography will be highly valuable for those interested in the history of medieval and church music, as well as for scholars of Du Fay's musical legacy.

Author : Andrew Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN :

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This book discusses and analyzes a repertory of poetry and chant that was used during the late Middle Ages in church services of the Divine Office, a repertory mostly unexplored to date.

Author : Willem Elders
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789004099708

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This volume is the first monograph on Renaissance music devoted to discuss compositions which involve symbolism inspired by ideas and themes inherent in the musical culture of the time, and to present means for controlling the process of their interpretation.