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Cultural Transfer of Music between Byzantium and the West? The Case of the Chants of the So-Called Missa Graeca
Author: Nina-Maria Wanek
This is the first comprehensive study of Greek language ordinary chants (Gloria/Doxa, Credo/Pisteuo, Sanctus/Hagios and Agnus Dei/Amnos tu theu) in Western manuscripts from the 9th to 14th centuries. These chants – known as “Missa Graeca” – have been the subject of academic research for over a hundred years. So far, however, research has been almost exclusively from a Western point of view, without knowledge of the Byzantine sources. For the first time, this book presents an in-depth analysis of these chants and their historical, linguistic and theological-liturgical environment from a Byzantine perspective. The new approach enables the author to refute numerous (and largely contradictory) theories on the origin and development of the Missa Graeca and provides new answers to old questions.
Series: Byzantina Australiensia, Number: 27
Nina-Maria Wanek, Cultural Transfer of Music between Byzantium and the West? The Case of the Chants of the So-Called Missa Graeca, Byzantina Australiensia 27 (Leiden, Wien, Paderborn: Brill, 2024). ISBN 978-90-04-51488-1.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Chants of the Missa graeca
1.1 Definition
1.2 Critical Review of the Literature
1.3 The Messe grecque of St Denis
Conclusion
2 The Missa graeca in Music-Liturgical Manuscripts
Geographical Aspect
Chronological Aspect
Monastic Aspect
2.1 East Frankish Manuscripts
2.2 West Frankish Manuscripts
2.3 Placement and Order of the Chants
2.4 Tropes or No Tropes?
3 The Missa graeca in Other Manuscripts
3.1 The Sacramentaries as First Witnesses
3.2 Glossaries, Grammars, and Anthologies
3.3 Psalters
3.4 The All-Saints Litany
4 The Texts of the Missa Graeca Chants
a) Alphabets
b) Glossaries and Grammars
c) Hermeneumata
d) Psalters
4.1 Doxa / Gloria
4.2 Pisteuo / Credo
4.3 Hagios / Sanctus
4.4 Amnos tu theu / Agnus Dei
5 The Melodies of the Missa Graeca Chants
Difficulties in Comparing Western with Byzantine Melodies
5.1 Doxa / Gloria
5.2 Credo / Pisteuo
5.3 Hagios / Sanctus
5.4 O amnos tu theu / Agnus Dei
6 Historical Background and Development
6.1 Notker’s ellinici fratres
6.2 Conclusion: Towards a New Assessment of the Missa graeca
Glossary of Technical Terms
Bibliography
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects
Index of Places
Index of Incipits
Index of Manuscripts
The Missa Graeca Project at the homepage of the author:
https://www.byzantinemusicology.com/missa-graeca-project
References
Nina-Maria Wanek, „Missa graeca: Eine Standortbestimmung“, in Byzanzrezeption in Europa Spurensuche über das Mittelalter und die Renaissance bis in die Gegenwart, ed. Foteini Kolovou (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012), 41–74. doi:10.1515/9783110272253.41.
Nina-Maria Wanek, "Die sogenannte Missa Graeca – Schnittstelle zwischen Ost und West?“, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 106, Nr. 1 (2013): 175–92. doi:10.1515/bz-2013-0014.
Nina-Maria Wanek, 'The Greek and Latin Cherubikon', Plainsong and Medieval Music 26, Nr. 02 (Oktober 2017): 95–114. doi:10.1017/S0961137117000043.
Nina-Maria Wanek, 'Bilingual Alleluia Chants in Latin Manuscripts of the 11th Century and Their Byzantine Counterparts', in "Byzantine Chant, Radiation, and Interaction" Proceedings of the Congress Held at Hernen Castle, the Netherlands, in December 2015, ed. Christian Troelsgård & Gerda Wolfram, Eastern Christian Studies 29 (Leuven, Paris, Bristol: Peeters, 2022), 175-198. academia.
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