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Chants, hypertext, and prosulas : re-texting the proper of the mass in Beneventan manuscripts
- Title
- Chants, hypertext, and prosulas : re-texting the proper of the mass in Beneventan manuscripts / Luisa Nardini.
- Author
- Nardini, Luisa
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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- Description
- xvi, 310 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-296) and indexes.
- Contents
- Part I History, Historiography, and Geography of Prosulas -- Prosulas: General Features, History, and Scholarship -- Prosulas in Manuscripts
- Part II Prosulas and Their Formal Features -- Formal Features and Notation -- Prosulas for Graduals and Tracts -- Prosulas for Allelluia and Offertories
- Part III Prosulas and the Liturigcal Year -- General Remarks -- Feasts and the Temporale -- Feasts of the Sanctorale
- Call Number
- JME 22-93
- ISBN
- 9780197514139
- 0197514138
- LCCN
- 2021015042
- OCLC
- 1245249358
- Author
- Nardini, Luisa, author.
- Title
- Chants, hypertext, and prosulas : re-texting the proper of the mass in Beneventan manuscripts / Luisa Nardini.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-296) and indexes.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Nardini, Luisa, Chants, hypertext, and prosulas New York : Oxford University Press, 2021. 9780197514153 (DLC) 2021015043
- Research Call Number
- JME 22-93