Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages

Name: Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780193152540

ISBN-10: 0193152541

ISBN-13: 9780193152540

Edition: 1991

Authors: Anne Walters Robertson

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A study of the music and ritual at Saint-Denis from the sixth to the sixteenth century, this book is based on an examination of the liturgical books and archival sources relating to the abbey, in particular the surviving service-books, which tell us much about the history of the music and of the Divine Office at Saint-Denis. Robertson also looks at the tropes and sequences proper to the office for Saint Denis, provides information on the performance practices, instruments, musicians, and liturgists from the abbey, and offers an account of the history of the liturgy from the Council of Torus in 567 to the pillage of the abbey by the Huguenots in 1567, thus explicating the extant liturgical…

Book details

List price: $125.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/26/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 584
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English