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Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis - Words and Music in the Second-Mode Tracts (Hardcover)
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Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis - Words and Music in the Second-Mode Tracts (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
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A sensitive and detailed investigation of the complex relationship
between text and music in medieval chant. How do text and melody
relate in western liturgical chant? Is the music simply an abstract
vehicle for the text, or does it articulate textual structure and
meaning? These questions are addressed here through a case study of
the second-mode tracts, lengthy and complex solo chants for Lent,
which were created in the papal choir of Rome before the mid-eighth
century. These partially formulaic chants function as exegesis,
with non-syntactical text divisions and emphatic musical phrases
promoting certain directions of inner meditation in both performers
and listeners. Dr Hornby compares the four second-mode tracts
representing the core repertory to related ninth-century Frankish
chants, showing that their structural and aesthetic principles are
neither Frankish nor a function of their notation in the earliest
extant manuscripts, but are instead a well-remembered written
reflection of a long oral tradition, stemming from Rome. Dr EMMA
HORNBY teaches in the Department of Music at the University of
Bristol.
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