Matins Lauds And Vespers For St David S Day

Author : Owain Tudor Edwards
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859912930

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Matins, Lauds, and Vespers for St. David's Day by Owain Tudor Edwards Pdf

This book looks at the only Welsh antiphonal known and discusses in particular the material for services celebrating the memory of the Welsh patron saint. The book has a full listing and description of the contents of the Penpont Antiphonal, National Library of Wales MS. 20541 E, and discusses the significance of the Office of St David. The chants and the literary text are described and discussed, supported by full transcriptions of the musical and literary texts, and by facsimile reproduction of the manuscript folios. The office is considered in its historical perspective, as evidence of the active cultivation of music in Wales during the Middle Ages, and for its relationship to other similar late medieval offices and to Rhigyfarch's Life of St David.

Author : Sally Harper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557252

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Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650 by Sally Harper Pdf

Music in Wales has long been a neglected area. Scholars have been deterred both by the need for a knowledge of the Welsh language, and by the fact that an oral tradition in Wales persisted far later than in other parts of Britain, resulting in a limited number of sources with conventional notation. Sally Harper provides the first serious study of Welsh music before 1650 and draws on a wide range of sources in Welsh, Latin and English to illuminate early musical practice. This book challenges and refutes two widely held assumptions - that music in Wales before 1650 is impoverished and elusive, and that the extant sources are too obscure and fragmentary to warrant serious study. Harper demonstrates that there is a far wider body of source material than is generally realized, comprising liturgical manuscripts, archival materials, chronicles and retrospective histories, inventories of pieces and players, vernacular poetry and treatises. This book examines three principal areas: the unique tradition of cerdd dant (literally 'the music of the string') for harp and crwth; the Latin liturgy in Wales and its embellishment, and 'Anglicised' sacred and secular materials from c.1580, which show Welsh music mirroring English practice. Taken together, the primary material presented in this book bears witness to a flourishing and distinctive musical tradition of considerable cultural significance, aspects of which have an important impact on wider musical practice beyond Wales.

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317012726

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The Use of Hereford by William Smith Pdf

The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England before their abolition and replacement by the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. Unlike the widespread Use of Sarum, the Use of Hereford was confined principally to its diocese, which helped to maintain its individuality until the Reformation. This study seeks to catalogue and evaluate all the known surviving sources of the Use of Hereford, with particular reference to the missals and gradual, which so far have received little attention. In addition to these a variety of other material has been examined, including a number of little-known or unknown important fragments of early Hereford service-books dismembered at the Reformation and now hidden away as binding or other scrap in libraries and record offices. This is the fullest examination of Hereford liturgical sources ever undertaken and may stimulate similar and much-needed studies of other diocesan uses, in particular Sarum and York. As well as describing in detail the various manuscript sources, the rare single edition printed Hereford texts, the missals and breviaries, are also discussed. Unlike books of the Sarum and York rites, these ’one-offs’ were never revised and reissued. In addition to the examination of these sources, William Smith discusses the possible origins of the rite and provides an analysis of the Hereford liturgical calendar, of the festa, including those of the cathedral’s patron St Ethelbert and the no less famous St Thomas Cantilupe, that helped to make Hereford use so distinctive.

Author : Mr William Smith
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472412775

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The Use of Hereford by Mr William Smith Pdf

The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England before their abolition and replacement by the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. Unlike the widespread Use of Sarum, the Use of Hereford was confined principally to its diocese, which helped to maintain its individuality until the Reformation. This study seeks to catalogue and evaluate all the known surviving sources of the Use of Hereford, with particular reference to the missals and gradual, which so far have received little attention. In addition to these a variety of other material has been examined, including a number of little-known or unknown important fragments of early Hereford service-books dismembered at the Reformation and now hidden away as binding or other scrap in libraries and record offices.

Author : Ann Buckley,Lisa Colton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108493222

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Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland by Ann Buckley,Lisa Colton Pdf

Reveals the rich liturgical ecology of medieval Britain and Ireland and the religious and lay communities who shaped it.

Author : J. Wyn Evans,Jonathan M. Wooding
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843833220

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St David of Wales by J. Wyn Evans,Jonathan M. Wooding Pdf

The cult of St David has been an enduring symbol of Welsh identity across more than a millennium. This volume traces the evidence for the cult of St David through archaeological, historical, hagiographical, liturgical, and toponymic evidence.

Author : John Bergsagel,Thomas Riis,David Hiley
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9788763542609

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Of Chronicles and Kings by John Bergsagel,Thomas Riis,David Hiley Pdf

This volume collects the proceedings of a symposium on the manuscript Kiel, University Library S. H. 8 A. 80, which contains the earliest copy of the so-called “Roskilde Chronicle” as well as the complete monastic Offices and Masses of the Danish saint Knud Lavard. Thirteen scholars offer a variety of analyses of the manuscript, including studies of the crusades and crusaders in the liturgy, kingship and sanctity in the lives of British and Scandinavian saints, and the writing of patriotic history.

Author : Emma Hornby,David Nicholas Maw
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843835356

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Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell by Emma Hornby,David Nicholas Maw Pdf

Articles on English music, from the medieval period to the present day, centred on four of the major areas of scholarly enquiry. The major themes of the essays in this collection reflect the work of the distinguished scholar John Caldwell, professor of music at Oxford University and a composer in his own right. There is a strong focus on early music, with contributions considering the medieval carol, sources for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century harpsichord music, and the transmission of fifteenth-century English music to the Continent; but they range right up to the twentieth century, with an examination of music in Oxford. All are concerned in one way or another with themes which recur in Professor Caldwell's scholarship: sources; style; performance; and historiography. Contributors: SALLY HARPER, DAVID HILEY, EMMA HORNBY, HARRY JOHNSTONE, MARGARET BENT, DAVID MAW, MATTHIAS RANGE, REINHARD STROHM, PETER WRIGHT, MAGNUS WILLIAMSON, JOHN HARPER, SIMON MCVEIGH, CHRISTOPHER PAGE, OWEN REES, SUSAN WOLLENBERG, JOHN ARTHUR SMITH, BENNETT ZON, DAVID MAW. To subscribe to the Tabula Gratulatoria for this volume, CLICK HERE

Author : Andrew Hughes,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Divine office
ISBN : 0888443722

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Late Medieval Liturgical Offices by Andrew Hughes,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Pdf

Author : BrianE. Power
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351540469

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The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music by BrianE. Power Pdf

The experience of music performance is always far more than the sum of its sounds, and evidence for playing and singing techniques is not only inscribed in music notation but can also be found in many other types of primary source materials. This volume of essays presents a cross-section of new research on performance issues in music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The subject is approached from a broad perspective, drawing on areas such as dance history, art history, music iconography and performance traditions from beyond Western Europe. In doing so, the volume continues some of the many lines of inquiry pursued by its dedicatee, Timothy J. McGee, over a lifetime of scholarship devoted to practical questions of playing and singing early music. Expanding the bases of inquiry to include various social, political, historical or aesthetic backgrounds both broadens our knowledge of the issues pertinent to early music performance and informs our understanding of other cultural activities within which music played an important role. The book is divided into two parts: 'Viewing the Evidence' in which visually based information is used to address particular questions of music performance; and 'Reconsidering Contexts' in which diplomatic, commercial and cultural connections to specific repertories or compositions are considered in detail. This book will be of value not only to specialists in early music but to all scholars of the Middle Ages and Renaissance whose interests intersect with the visual, aural and social aspects of music performance.

Author : Reinhard Strohm,Bonnie J. Blackburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198162057

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Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages by Reinhard Strohm,Bonnie J. Blackburn Pdf

This entirely new volume of NOHM takes account of developments in late-medieval music scholarship, along with significant changes in the performance practice of the late-medieval repertory, witnessed during the latter half of the 20th century.

Author : Kay Brainerd Slocum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351593380

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The Cult of Thomas Becket by Kay Brainerd Slocum Pdf

On 29 December, 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his own cathedral. News of the event was rapidly disseminated throughout Europe, generating a widespread cult which endured until the reign of Henry VIII in the sixteenth century, and engendering a fascination which has lasted until the present day. The Cult of Thomas Becket: History and Historiography through Eight Centuries contributes to the lengthy debate surrounding the saint by providing a historiographical analysis of the major themes in Becket scholarship, tracing the development of Becket studies from the writings of the twelfth-century biographers to those of scholars of the twenty-first century. The book offers a thorough commentary and analysis which demonstrates how the Canterbury martyr was viewed by writers of previous generations as well as our own, showing how they were influenced by the intellectual trends and political concerns of their eras, and indicating how perceptions of Thomas Becket have changed over time. In addition, several chapters are devoted a discussion of artworks in various media devoted to the saint, as well as liturgies and sermons composed in his honor. Combining a wide historical scope with detailed textual analysis, this book will be of great interest to scholars of medieval religious history, art history, liturgy, sanctity and hagiography.

Author : S. H. Rigby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470998779

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A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages by S. H. Rigby Pdf

This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading

Author : Phyllis Kinney
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783168583

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Welsh Traditional Music by Phyllis Kinney Pdf

Phyllis Kinney's Welsh Traditional Music covers the traditional music of Wales from its beginnings through to the present day, providing musical analysis and placing its material firmly into a social and historical context. Among the many different forms of Welsh traditional music discussed are seasonal music (including wassail songs, Christmas and May carols and Plygain carols), folk drama, ballad-singing, the relevance of the eisteddfod and the musical journals of the nineteenth century. Additionally, the book includes a history of song collecting from the eighteenth century to the establishment and ongoing activities of the Welsh Folk-Song Society in the twentieth; both the instrumental and the vocal traditions are examined, as well as the uniquely Welsh tradition of ‘cerdd dant’. This is a work of pioneering scholarship that accounts for Welsh traditional music within the context of a greater Welsh musical tradition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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CURRENT CONTENTS ARTS & HUMMANITIES JUNE 7, 1993 VOLUME 15 NUMBER 12 by Anonim Pdf