Gregorian and Old Roman eighth-mode tracts : a case study in the transmission of Western chant / Emma Hornby.
| Author/creator | Hornby, Emma, 1973- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2002. |
| Description | xii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Textual origins and liturgical placing of the core repertory of eighth-mode tracts -- The primary evidence -- Analysis of the eighth-mode tracts -- Methods of transmission of the early chant tradition -- The medieval understanding of the eighth-mode tracts I: characteristics of the notated sources and theoretical writing -- The medieval understanding of the eighth-mode tracts II: tract composition in the tenth and eleventh centuries -- Questions of chronology -- Variants in Iubilate in the manuscript sample -- The phrase types and their subgroups in the old Roman and Gregorian traditions -- The core repertory of eighth-mode tracts in BEN5 and ORC -- The eighth-mode tracts in DIJ1 -- The non-standard eighth-mode tracts. |
| Abstract | The Roman origins of the Gregorian mass proper have long been recognized, yet a seeming paradox has remained. For while Gregorian chant is found in notated liturgical manuscripts right across Western Europe from the late ninth century onwards, the surviving manuscripts from the city of Rome itself dating from the eleventh century onwards contain a different melodic tradition, known as Old Roman. To help shed light on the nature of the relationship between Old Roman and Gregorian chant, the author makes a detailed musical analysis of a specific group of chants, the eighth-mode tracts. The book shows that it is possible to construct a model illustrating how the eight-mode tracts may have been transmitted before notation was widely used through the aid of memory prompts in the text, the form of the chants, and the melodic outline of the genre. In doing this, the study sheds light more generally on the relationship between oral and written modes of transmission in the ecclesiastical culture of the Middle Ages. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-397) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001053593 |
| ISBN | 0754604144 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML3082 .H8 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |