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Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis - Words and Music in the Second-Mode Tracts (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,632
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Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis - Words and Music in the Second-Mode Tracts (Hardcover): Emma Hornby

Medieval Liturgical Chant and Patristic Exegesis - Words and Music in the Second-Mode Tracts (Hardcover)

Emma Hornby

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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Imprint: The Boydell Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Release date: July 2009
First published: 2009
Authors: Emma Hornby
Dimensions: 234 x 155 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-471-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)
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LSN: 1-84383-471-5
Barcode: 9781843834717

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