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re-texting the proper of the mass in Beneventan manuscripts
1 online resource (xvi, 310 pages) : illustrations.
"The liturgical chant that was sung in the churches of Southern Italy between the ninth and the thirteenth centuries reflects the multiculturalism of a territory in which Roman, Franks, Lombards, Byzantines, Normans, Jews, and Muslims were present at various titles and with different political roles. This book examines a specific genre, the prosulas that were composed to embellish and expand pre-existing liturgical chants of the liturgy of mass. Widespread in medieval Europe, prosulas were highly cultivated in southern Italy, especially by the nuns, monks, and clerics the city of Benevento. They shed light on the creativity of local cantors to provide new meanings to the liturgy in accordance with contemporary waves of religious spirituality and to experiment with a novel musical style in which a syllabic setting is paired with the free-flowing melody of the parent chant. In their representing an epistemological 'beyond' and because of their interconnectedness with the parent chant, they can be likened to modern hypertexts. The emphasis on universal saints of ancient lineage stressed the perceived links with the cradles of Christianity, Africa and the Levant, and the centre of the Papal power, Rome, while the high number of Christological prosulas in manuscripts used in nunneries might be tied to the devotion to Jesus as 'spiritual spouse' that was typical of female religiosity. Full edition of texts, melodies, and manuscript facsimiles in the companion website enrich the study of the stylistic features and the cultural components of this fascinating genre"--
Cover -- Chants, Hypertext, and Prosulas -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- About the Companion Website -- Bibliographic Sigla -- Part I History, Historiography, and Geography of Prosulas -- 1. Prosulas: General Features, History, and Scholarship -- Prosulas and Hypertexts -- Prosulas and Parent Chants -- Modern Scholarship on Prosulas -- Prosulas in Manuscripts: Appearance and Notation -- The Medieval Perception and Documentation of Prosulas -- Prosulas and the History of Gregorian Chant -- 2. Prosulas in Manuscripts
Prosulas in Beneventan Manuscripts: The Earliest Stages -- Manuscripts from Benevento -- Manuscripts from Other Regional Centers -- Other Fragmentary Sources -- Extra-Regional Concordances -- Part II Prosulas and their Formal Features -- 3 Formal Features and Notation -- Prosulas and Their Texts -- The Notating of Prosulas -- Notation -- 4. Prosulas for Graduals and Tracts -- Interlectionary Chants -- The Gradual -- The Tract -- Prosulas for Graduals and Tracts and O Roma nobilis -- 5. Prosulas for Alleluia and Offertories -- General Features -- The Alleluia -- The Offertory
Part III Prosulas and the Liturgical Year -- 6. General Remarks -- 7. Feasts of the Temporale -- 8. Feasts of the Sanctorale -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Glossary -- Appendix 2: Manuscripts Cited -- Bibliography -- Index of Liturgical Chants -- Index of Manuscripts cited -- Index of Names and Subjects
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2021