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Performing piety : musical culture in medieval English nunneries

Title
Performing piety : musical culture in medieval English nunneries / Anne Bagnall Yardley.
Author
Yardley, Anne Bagnall, 1950-
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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Description
xvii, 326 pages : illustrations, music; 22 cm.
Summary
"What did nuns sing? How did they learn about music? How did the music affect their piety? This book answers these and many other questions about the musical life in English nunneries in the later Middle Ages. Drawing upon a wide range of historical sources, Anne Bagnall Yardley pieces together a mosaic of nunnery musical life. Formal monastic rules, medieval liturgical manuscripts, records from bishops' visitations to nunneries and other medieval documents provide evidence that even the smallest convents sang the monastic offices on a daily basis and that many of the larger houses celebrated the late medieval liturgy in all of its complexity."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
The new Middle Ages
Uniform Title
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subject
  • Church music > England > 500-1400
  • Church music > Catholic Church > 500-1400
  • Church music > England > 15th century
  • Church music > Catholic Church > 15th century
  • Nuns as musicians > England
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-315) and index.
Contents
1. The religious rules -- 2. Musical leadership in the nunnery -- 3. The reality of musical life -- 4. Everyday musical practices : psalters, hours, and the office of the dead -- 5. Pomp and piety : processional practices in nunneries -- 6. The consecration of nuns -- 7. A case study in Benedictine practices : Barking Abbey -- 8. The Bridgettine nuns of Syon Abbey -- App. A. List of nuns holding the position of cantrix -- App. B. The role of the chantress at Syon Abbey -- App. C. Theoretical material from Wherwell Abbey -- App. D. The Visitatio from the Wilton processional.
ISBN
1403962995 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005045614
  • 9781403962997
OCLC
  • ocm61731469
  • SCSB-14534943
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries