The Beneventan Chant

Thomas Forrest Kelly

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Cambridge University Press
27 October 2008

Early music (up to c 1000 CE)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Music

"From the High Middle Ages the dominance of Gregorian chant has obscured the fact that musical practice in early medieval Europe was far richer than has hitherto been recognized. Despite its historical importance, the ""Gregorian"" is not the most consistent and probably not the oldest form of Christian chant. The recovery and study of regional musical dialects having a common ancestry in the Christian church and Western musical tradition are reshaping our view of the early history of Christian liturgical music. Thomas Kelly's major study of the Beneventan chant reinstates one of the oldest surviving bodies of Western music: the Latin church music of southern Italy as it existed before the spread of Gregorian chant. Dating from the seventh and eighth centuries it was largely forgotten after the Carolingian desire for political and liturgical uniformity imposed ""Gregorian"" chant throughout the realm. But a few later scribes, starting apparently in the tenth century, preserved a part of this regional heritage in writing. This book reassembles and describes the surviving repertory."

By: Thomas Forrest Kelly
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 189mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 660g
ISBN: 9780521065979
ISBN 10: 0521065976
Series: Cambridge Studies in Music
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 27 October 2008
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. Beneventan chant in its historical context; 2. The manuscript sources of Beneventan chant; 3. The Beneventan liturgy; 4. Beneventan musical style; 5. Benevento and the music of other liturgies.

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The Beneventan Chant

Thomas Forrest Kelly

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