Rebecca Maloy

Songs of Sacrifice

Chant, Identity, and Christian Formation in Early Medieval Iberia

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Produktbeschreibung

Rebecca Maloy's Songs of Sacrifice argues that liturgical music--both texts and melodies--played a central role in the cultural renewal of early Medieval Iberia, with a chant repertory that was carefully designed to help build a society unified in the Nicene faith.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780190071530
• ISBN-10: 0190071532
• Artikelnr.: 58601448

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Maloy is Professor of Music and the University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in plainsong, liturgy and ritual, and the theory and analysis of early music. She is the author of Inside the Offertory: Aspects of Chronology and Transmission (2010), the co-author, with Emma Hornby, of Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants (2013), and the co-editor, with Daniel J. DiCenso, of Chant, Liturgy, and the Inheritance of Rome (2017). Her current and recent work has been supported by funding from the European Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Old Hispanic Chant and the Visigothic Context
CHAPTER 1
The Sacrificium
CHAPTER 2
Liturgy, Patristic Learning, and Christian Formation
CHAPTER 3
From Scripture to Chant: Biblical Exegesis and Communal Identity in the Sacrificia
CHAPTER 4
The Melodic Language
CHAPTER 5
Sounding Prophecy: Words and Music in the Sacrificia
CHAPTER 6
The Broader Old Hispanic Tradition: Aspects of Melodic Transmission
CHAPTER 7
Connections beyond Hispania
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
Manuscripts with Sacrificia and Their Sigla
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF CHANTS
GENERAL INDEX