Emma Hornby - Rebecca Maloy - Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants

[Dominique Gatté]

Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants Psalmi, threni and the Easter Vigil Canticles Emma Hornby Rebecca Maloy Medieval Iberian liturgical practice was independent of the Roman liturgy. As such, its sources preserve an unfamiliar and fascinating devotional journey through the liturgical year. However, although Old Hispanic liturgical chant has long been considered one of the most important medieval chant traditions, what musical notation to survive shows only where the melodies rise and fall, not precise intervals or pitches. This lack of pitch-readable notation has prevented scholars from fully engaging with the surviving sources - a gap which this book aims to fill, via a new methodology for analysing the melodies and the relationship between melody and text. Focussing on three genres of chant sung during the Old Hispanic Lent (the threni, psalmi, and Easter Vigil canticles), the book takes a holistic view of the texts and melodies, setting them in the context of their liturgical and intellectual surroundings, and, for the Easter Vigil, exploring the relationship between different Old Hispanic traditions and other western liturgies. It concludes that the theologically purposeful text selections combine with carefully shaped melodies to guide the devotional practice of their hearers. Emma Hornby is Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Bristol; Rebecca Maloy is Associate Professor of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder. Details First Published: 17 Oct 2013 13 Digit ISBN: 9781843838142 Pages: 384 Size: 24.4 x 17.2 Binding: Hardback Imprint: Boydell Press Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music Subject: Music BIC Class: AV Details updated on 09 Oct 2013 Contents 1  Introduction 2  Thematic Congruity in the Old Hispanic Lenten liturgies 3  The threni 4  The Melodic language of the Old Hispanic Lenten Psalmi 5  Words and Music in the Psalmi 6  The Easter Vigil Canticles 7  Afterword: The relationship between the Old Hispanic traditions A and B 8  Appendix 1: A guide to reading Old Hispanic notation 9  Appendix 2: The threni texts 10  Appendix 3: The threni 11  Appendix 4: The Lenten psalmi in León 8 12  Appendix 5: The Lenten psalmi in T5, compared with León 8 13  Appendix 6: Easter Vigil Canticles in León 8 and T5 14  Appendix 7: Comparison of some Old Hispanic benedictiones in León 8, T5, T4, T7 and Aemil 30 15  Bibliography

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[Emma Hornby]

Thank you Dominique! If you order through the Boydell and Brewer website before 20 December, and enter the code 13245, you can get the book for £56.25 rather than the full price :-)