Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life
Title | Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Stratton Hild |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Death |
ISBN | 9780197685938 |
"Medieval documents reveal that for centuries of European history, singing for a person at the moment of death was considered to be the ideal accompaniment to a life's ending. Rituals for the dying were well developed, practiced widely, and thoroughly integrated with music. Indeed, these rituals reveal that music, rather than the Eucharist, held a privileged position at the final breath. Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life examines and recovers, to the extent possible, the music sung for the dying during the Middle Ages. The book offers a view of the plainchant repertory through the sources of individual institutions. The first four chapters contain a series of "case studies": close readings of rituals from diverse communities, each as they appear in a single source. The rituals' chants are transcribed into modern notation and analyzed, both for their relationships between text and melody and for their functions within the rituals. Created for the powerful and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, women and men, monastics, clerics, and laity, these manuscripts offer a glimpse into the religious practices that distinguished communities from one another and bound them together within a single tradition. The book provides the first editions of the rituals' chants and considers the functions of the music. Why was music given such a prominent position within the deathbed liturgies? Why did communities gather and sing when a loved one was dying? The manuscripts reveal a lost art of comforting the dying and the grieving"--
Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life
Title | Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Stratton Hild |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0197685919 |
"Medieval documents reveal that for centuries of European history, singing for a person at the moment of death was considered to be the ideal accompaniment to a life's ending. Rituals for the dying were well developed, practiced widely, and thoroughly integrated with music. Indeed, these rituals reveal that music, rather than the Eucharist, held a privileged position at the final breath. Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life examines and recovers, to the extent possible, the music sung for the dying during the Middle Ages. The book offers a view of the plainchant repertory through the sources of individual institutions. The first four chapters contain a series of "case studies": close readings of rituals from diverse communities, each as they appear in a single source. The rituals' chants are transcribed into modern notation and analyzed, both for their relationships between text and melody and for their functions within the rituals. Created for the powerful and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, women and men, monastics, clerics, and laity, these manuscripts offer a glimpse into the religious practices that distinguished communities from one another and bound them together within a single tradition. The book provides the first editions of the rituals' chants and considers the functions of the music. Why was music given such a prominent position within the deathbed liturgies? Why did communities gather and sing when a loved one was dying? The manuscripts reveal a lost art of comforting the dying and the grieving"--
Commemoration, Ritual and Performance
Title | Commemoration, Ritual and Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Morlet Hardie |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 126 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Commemoration, Ritual and Performance
Title | Commemoration, Ritual and Performance PDF eBook |
Author | University of Sydney. Centre for Medieval Studies |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 126 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Medieval Ritual and Early Modern Music
Title | Medieval Ritual and Early Modern Music PDF eBook |
Author | Eyolf Ă˜strem |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9782503558714 |
Shrouded in Song
Title | Shrouded in Song PDF eBook |
Author | Peggy Quinn |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 18 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Christianizing Death
Title | Christianizing Death PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick S. Paxton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN |