- 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
Reading an Office Book
Reading an Office Book
- Chapter:
- (p.48) 2 Reading an Office Book
- Source:
- The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages
- Author(s):
László Dobszay
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
If the primary agents of chant history are the communities that performed, preserved, transmitted, enriched, or modified a tradition, the sources must be regarded not only as elements in a textual stemma, products of scribal activity, but also as views of particular everyday practices. Single MSS, however, can often mislead, because of deceptive omissions, missing items, multiple or surplus items, problems of redaction (format and method of compilation), changes in the course of time, and differences between ritus (fixed local liturgy) and consuetudo (written or unwritten customs). In the end, only description and comparison of local traditions themselves, arrived at through the comparative study of sources, produce satisfying conclusions. This chapter references the author's own data base for the study of liturgical sources, which is different in nature from CANTUS, founded by Ruth Steiner.
Keywords: liturgical books, Breviaries, manuscripts, prints, ritus, consuetudo, litrugical music, chant repertory, antiphons, responsories
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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
