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6 - Plainchant Offices for the Saints of Medieval Britain and Ireland

Some Reflections on Their Local and National Significance

from Part II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2021

Ann Buckley
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Lisa Colton
Affiliation:
University of Huddersfield
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Liturgical offices for the patron saints of particular dioceses or individual churches often deliberately emphasise the saint’s importance for the place where they were venerated. The sets of chants for their feast days frequently refer to episodes in their life on earth and the miracles worked after their rebirth in heaven and culminate with a call for the saint’s intercession on the day of judgement. These cycles of chants, for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds, usually two or three dozen in number, were commonly called historia and complemented the writings about the saint in the passio, vita, and miracula. The chapter surveys the topographical references in some forty saints’ offices, across England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, and also comments on some musical features of their new composed chants.

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Print publication year: 2022

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