Music in the medieval English liturgy : Plainsong & Mediaeval Music Society centennial essays / edited by Susan Rankin and David Hiley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rankin, Susan Kathleen.

Hiley, David.

Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society (Great Britain)

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Church music--England--500-1400.

Church music.

Church music--Catholic Church--500-1400.

Church music--Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--England--Liturgy.

Liturgics.

England.

Physical Description:

viii, 413 pages, 2 pages of plates : facsimiles, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Summary:

This collection of essays has been assembled in celebration of the centenary of the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society, with contributions from an international group of scholars. Founded in 1888, the PMMS had an especial interest in using research on medieval music, in particular on British sources, to aid a renewal of the Anglican liturgy. The riches of the Roman tradition of chant--as sung in Britain--were at the centre of the Society's early publications, but it has always been concerned with polyphonic as well as monophonic musical repertories.

Of the two sides of the Society's activities, the scholarly and the practical, these essays represent the former. The first group of essays has as its focus music and liturgy in pre-Conquest England, and more specifically Winchester; aspects of text, liturgy, and polyphony as a performance practice are explored, as well as the interaction between continental and insular repertories. A second group combines studies of the liturgical uses of medieval England and late medieval polyphony: picking up the chronological thread in the twelfth century, these move from plainchant composed in honour of the Virgin Mary, and a survey of offices for British saints, through the weighty repertory of fourteenth-century motets to the world of sixteenth-century English polyphony, much of it also Marian.

Contents:

1. The Plainsong & Mediaeval Music Society, 1888-1988 / David Hiley 1

I Liturgy and Liturgical Music in the Eleventh Century

2. Unica in the Cotton Caligula Troper / Ritva Jacobsson 11

3. Remarks on the Alleluia and Responsory Series in the Winchester Troper / Michel Huglo 47

4. Winchester Polyphony: The Early Theory and Practice of Organum / Susan Rankin 59

5. Stylistic Layers in Eleventh-Century Polyphony: How can the Continental Sources contribute to our Understanding of the Winchester Organa? / Wulf Arlt 101

II Liturgical Uses and Genres in Medieval England

6. Post-Pentecost Alleluias in Medieval British Liturgies / David Hiley 145

7. Marian Antiphons at Cluny and Lewes / Ruth Steiner 175

8. An English Noted Breviary of circa 1200 / David Chadd 205

9. British Rhymed Offices: A Catalogue and Commentary / Andrew Hughes 239

10 Relations between Liturgical and Vernacular Music in Medieval England / John Caldwell 285

III Liturgical Polyphony in Later Medieval England

11. Plainsong into Polyphony: Repertories and Structures circa 1270-circa 1420 / Frank Ll. Harrison (d. 1988) 303

12. The Manuscript London, British Library Harley 1709 / Nick Sandon 355

Incipits and Titles 386.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0193161257

OCLC:

27146716