The forms and orders of Western liturgy from the tenth to the eighteenth century : a historical introduction and guide for students and musicians / John Harper.
| Author/creator | Harper, John |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©1991. |
| Description | xiii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I. Liturgy in the western church. Prologue: what is liturgy? The formation of Christian liturgy: a historical summary ; The spread of Christian worship ; Monasticism and the daily office ; The mass ; Liturgical change in the later middle ages ; Reformation and Counter-Reformation -- Liturgy and the medieval church. Medieval clerics, religious, and their churches ; The ordering of collegiate and monastic foundations ; The relationship of order in choir and music ; Nuns and canonesses ; The place of the people in the medieval liturgy ; Polyphony and polyphonic choirs -- Part II. Medieval liturgy. The liturgical year and the calendar. The day ; The week ; The calendar ; The annual cycle of seasons (temporale) ; The annual cycle of feast-days (sanctorale) ; The ranking of liturgical days ; Seasonal and festal observance ; The extent of the liturgical day -- Medieval books for the liturgy. Medieval books ; Books of information and instruction ; Books for use in the office ; Books for use at mass ; Other books ; After the Reformation and the Council of Trent ; The ordering of liturgical books -- The psalter. The Book of Psalms ; Problems of numbering and nature ; The psalms in the mass ; The psalms in the Office ; The functional distinctions of psalmody -- The divine office. Historical background ; The materials of the office ; The daily office in detail ; The structure and order of Matins (Ad Matutinas) ; Lauds (Ad Laudes Matutinales or In Laudibus) ; Prime (Ad Primam) ; Terce, sext, none (Ad Tertiam, Sextam, Nonam) ; Vespers (Ad Vesperas) ; Compline (Ad Completorium) ; Important seasonal variants ; The office of the dead (Officium Defunctorum) -- The mass. The contrast between medieval and modern eucharistic liturgy ; The formation of the mass between the second and eleventh centuries ; The nature of the medieval mass ; The order of the medieval mass ; The contents of the medieval mass in detail ; Medieval celebration of the mass ; Mass of the dead (Requiem) -- Processions and other additional observances. Processions ; Commemorations, memorials, and suffrages ; The antiphon in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary ; The little office of the virgin ; Other votive masses ; Litanies ; Other observances -- Holy week and Easter. Holy week ; Palm Sunday ; The Triduum (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday) ; The office during the Triduum ; Mass and special ceremonies of Maundy Thursday ; The Good Friday liturgy ; The Easter vigil ; Easter day ; The season of Easter -- |
| Contents | Part III. After the reformation. The tridentine reform. Reformation and Counter-Reformation ; The tridentine rite ; The calendar ; The office ; Private, corporate, and public recitation of the office ; Vespers on Sundays and feasts ; The mass ; High mass (Missa solemniter) ; Other forms of worship ; The liturgical achievement of the tridentine reform -- The reformed liturgy of the Church of England (1549-1662). The English Reformation ; The Book of Common Prayer ; The office ; The office of holy communion (1552) ; The burial service ; The influence of the 1549 book ; Music and the Book of Common Prayer ; Additional music: the anthem and the metrical psalm -- Part IV. Using liturgical sources. Establishing the order of a Latin liturgical celebration. Establishing a norm ; Establishing variants from the norm ; Using the books ; Establishing a liturgical order: text ; Establishing a liturgical order: music ; Establishing a liturgical order: ritual ; Establishing a liturgical order: ceremonial ; Filling gaps in the order -- The ordering of selected medieval sources. The use of Salisbury: breviary, missal, consuetudinary, and customary, ordinal, tonary, directory, antiphonal, gradual, processional ; The use of Hereford: breviary, missal ; The use of York: breviary, missal, processional ; The use of the Roman (Papal) curia: breviary, missal ; Monastic uses (Benedictine): breviary (Hyde Abbey, Winchester), missal (Westminster Abbey), ordinal (St Mary's Abbey, York), customary (Cathedral Priory, Norwich), ordinal (Barking Abbey (nuns)), antiphonal (Cathedral Priory, Worcester), 'Rites of Durham', (Cathedral Priory, Durham) -- Appendices. Appendix 1. Important features of the liturgical calendar. The cycle of the temporale in the medieval and tridentine rites ; Major feasts of the sanctorale in the medieval and tridentine rites -- Appendix 2. The psalter. Numerical index of psalms with liturgical placing in the ferial psalter ; Alphabetical index of psalms ; Variable canticles ; Weekly cycle of psalms ; A selection of proper psalms for feast-days ; The distribution of the psalter in the Book of Common Prayer -- Appendix 3. Frequently used choral texts in Latin and English. Ordinary of the mass ; Texts for the office ; Pater noster ; Antiphons in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary ; Glossary of ecclesiastical and liturgical terms. |
| Abstract | An introduction to the principal forms and orders of Western liturgy between about 900 and 1700, this book explains their nature and basic historical origin, and presents in detail the contents and orders of principal services as well as additional and special forms of worship. This book emphasizes the mainstream of Western liturgy derived from the medieval Roman Rite as found in secular and monastic churches. After the Reformation it concentrates on the rites of the Roman Catholic church and the Church of England. Harper discusses the nature of liturgy and provides an historical summary and individual chapters on medieval churches and their communities, the Christian calendar, medieval liturgical books, the Psalms, the Office, the Mass, Processions and Additional Observances, Holy Week and Easter, the Tridentine Rite, and the English Book of Common Prayer. Harper concludes with two chapters which raise the problems of establishing the order of a liturgical service, and introduces selected medieval sources accessible in facsimile or edition. A select, annotated bibliography and a glossary of ecclesiastical and liturgical terms are included. |
| Local note | Little-284353 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-285) and index. |
| LCCN | 91007974 |
| ISBN | 0193161281 : |
| ISBN | 0198162790 (pbk.) : |