John Boe is Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Arizona, USA

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• Contents: Introduction; A new source for Old Beneventan chant: the Santa Sophia Maundy in MS Ottoboni lat 145; Old Beneventan chant at Montecassino: Gloriosus confessor Domini Benedictus; The neumes and Pater Noster chant of Montecassino codex 426; The Frankish Pater Noster chant: tradition and anaphoral context; Gloria A and the Roman Easter vigil ordinary; The Beneventan apostrophus in South Italian notation, A.D. 1000-1100; The 'lost' palimpsest kyries in the Vatican Manuscript Urbinus latinus 602; Hymns and poems at mass in 11th-century Southern Italy (other than sequences); Italian and Roman verses for kyrie leyson in the MSS Cologny-Genève, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana 74 and Vaticanus latinus 5319; Review of Thomas Forrest Kelly, The Beneventan Chant; Chant notation in 11th-century Roman manuscripts; Music notation in Archivo San Pietro C105 and in the Farfa breviary, Chigi C.VI.177; The Roman introit Salus populi; The Roman Missa sponsalicia; Deus Israel and Roman introits; Addenda and corrigenda; Indexes.