- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- List of Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Prelude
- I Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West
- 2 Reading an Office Book
- 3 The Origins of the Western Office
- 4 Observations on the Divine Office in the Rule of the Master
- 5 Eastern and Western Elements in the Irish Monastic Prayer of the Hours
- 6 The Antiphoner of Compiègne
- 7 The Divine Office at Saint‐Martial in the Early Eleventh Century
- 8 The Cluniac Processional of Solesmes
- 9 Taking the Rough with the Smooth
- 10 Office Compositions from St. Gall
- 11 The Development and Chronology of the Ambrosian Sanctorale
- 12 Performing Latin Verse
- 13 From Office to Mass
- 14 The Office for the Feast of the Circumcision from Le Puy
- 15 The Palm Sunday Procession in Medieval Chartres
- 16 Nonconformity in the Use of Cambrai Cathedral
- 17 Transforming a Viking into a Saint
- 18 On the Prose <i>Historia</i> of St. Augustine
- 19 The <i>Historia</i> of St. Julian of Le Mans by Létald of Micy
- 20 The Little Office of the Virgin and Mary's Role at Paris
- 21 The Carmelite Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin
- 22 Large Projects and Small Resources
- 23 CANTUS and Tonaries
- Bibliography of Writings by Ruth Steiner
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Incipits
- Index of Saints
- General Index
Taking the Rough with the Smooth
Taking the Rough with the Smooth
Melodic Versions and Manuscript Status
- Chapter:
- (p.213) 9 Taking the Rough with the Smooth
- Source:
- The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages
- Author(s):
Susan Rankin
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The song Diastematica vocis armonia belongs to an extensive repertoire of songs with which, from the late 11th century on, clerics in France and related areas were accustomed to celebrate the highest feasts of the church year. Comparison of this song and its source, GB-Cu MS Ff.1.17 (the so called Younger Cambridge Songbook), with similar songs, as copied in the later MS I-Fl MS Plut. 29.1 (F), shows that conductus songs of this sort were evidently on the margins of the liturgy in the 11th and 12th centuries, but by the mid-13th century had become an officially supported part of the performance of the Divine Office in many parts of France. The nature of the manuscripts that survive containing the repertory reflects its change in stature.
Keywords: conductus, Office, manuscripts and prints, Diastematica vocis armonia, Pluteus 29.1, monophonic Latin songs, musical notation, Middle Ages, performance practice, scribal techniques
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- List of Musical Examples
- Contributors
- Prelude
- I Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West
- 2 Reading an Office Book
- 3 The Origins of the Western Office
- 4 Observations on the Divine Office in the Rule of the Master
- 5 Eastern and Western Elements in the Irish Monastic Prayer of the Hours
- 6 The Antiphoner of Compiègne
- 7 The Divine Office at Saint‐Martial in the Early Eleventh Century
- 8 The Cluniac Processional of Solesmes
- 9 Taking the Rough with the Smooth
- 10 Office Compositions from St. Gall
- 11 The Development and Chronology of the Ambrosian Sanctorale
- 12 Performing Latin Verse
- 13 From Office to Mass
- 14 The Office for the Feast of the Circumcision from Le Puy
- 15 The Palm Sunday Procession in Medieval Chartres
- 16 Nonconformity in the Use of Cambrai Cathedral
- 17 Transforming a Viking into a Saint
- 18 On the Prose <i>Historia</i> of St. Augustine
- 19 The <i>Historia</i> of St. Julian of Le Mans by Létald of Micy
- 20 The Little Office of the Virgin and Mary's Role at Paris
- 21 The Carmelite Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin
- 22 Large Projects and Small Resources
- 23 CANTUS and Tonaries
- Bibliography of Writings by Ruth Steiner
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Incipits
- Index of Saints
- General Index
