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- Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland
- Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I
- Part II
- 5 Case Studies I
- 6 Plainchant Offices for the Saints of Medieval Britain and Ireland
- 7 Insular Saints in Irish Sarum Kalendars of the Office
- 8 Responsory Verses for Irish and Insular Saints
- 9 Pater Columba: The Irish and Scottish Offices of St Columba of Iona (Colum Cille)
- Part III
- List of Manuscripts
- Bibliography
- Index
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
- Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland
- Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I
- Part II
- 5 Case Studies I
- 6 Plainchant Offices for the Saints of Medieval Britain and Ireland
- 7 Insular Saints in Irish Sarum Kalendars of the Office
- 8 Responsory Verses for Irish and Insular Saints
- 9 Pater Columba: The Irish and Scottish Offices of St Columba of Iona (Colum Cille)
- Part III
- List of Manuscripts
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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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- Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland , pp. 105 - 121Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022