Studies in Gregorian Chant

Ruth Steiner, The Catholic University of America, USA

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• Contents: Chants of the Divine Office: General: The music for a Cluny office of St Benedict; Invitatory Tones and Antiphons: Tones for the Palm Sunday invitatory; Local and regional traditions of the invitatory chant; Reconstructing the repertory of invitatory tones and their uses at Cluny in the late 11th century; The twenty-two invitatory tones of the manuscript Toledo, Biblioteca Capitular, 44.2; Antiphons: Antiphons for Lauds on the octave of Christmas; The parable of the talents in liturgy and chant; Antiphons for the Benedicite at Lauds; Responsories and Prosulae: Matins responsories and cycles of illustrations of saints’ lives; The Gregorian chant melismas of Christmas matins; Some melismas for office responsories; The responsories and prosa for St Stephen’s Day at Salisbury; Mass Chants: Some questions about the Gregorian offertories and their verses; Holocausta medullata: an offertory for St Saturninus; The prosulae of the MS Paris, Bibl. nat., f. lat. 1118; Non-psalm verses for Introits and communions; The canticle of the three children as a chant of the Roman mass; Chant Sources: The liturgical and musical tradition of Bec; Addenda and corrigenda; Indexes.