Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 March 2024
- ISBN 9780197685914
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 157x229x33 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 music examples, 5 b/w halftones, 3 tables 468
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Short description:
Medieval documents reveal that for centuries of European history, singing for a person at the moment of death was considered to be the ideal accompaniment to a life's ending. Through investigations of four manuscripts as case studies, author Elaine Stratton Hild examines and recovers the music sung for the dying during the Middle Ages and considers the functions of the music--a lost art of comforting the dying and the grieving.
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For centuries of European history, singing for a person at the moment of death was considered to be the ideal accompaniment to a life's ending. In Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life, author Elaine Stratton Hild examines and recovers the chants sung for the dying during the Middle Ages, beginning in the late eighth century. Along with the first editions of these melodies, she offers considerations of the functions that music played within the deathbed rituals, arguing that the chants served as vehicles with which communities offered comfort to a dying person.
The book presents close readings of rituals from diverse communities, each as they appear in a single source. The rituals' chants are transcribed into modern notation and analyzed, both for their text-music relationships and for their functions within the rituals. Hild shows that within the widespread practice, local versions of the liturgies--along with their chant repertories--remained unstandardized throughout the Middle Ages. Yet some commonalities are evident among these varied local practices. One is the use of song. Beginning in the ninth century, sources most often prescribe chant, not the Eucharist, for the final moments of life. Another commonality is the positive depiction of the afterlife conveyed by the chants.
Created for the powerful and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, women and men, monastics, clerics, and laity, these manuscripts offer a glimpse into the religious practices that distinguished communities from one another and also bound them together within a single tradition.
In this book, Hild provides unique insight into a very specific topic and liturgical ritual of the early Middle Ages and how its development fostered bothlocalized and formal musical traditions and liturgies centered on the act of dying and death in subsequent centuries. Hild offers both a personal and scholarly discussion of an experience in which all human beings participate throughout their lifetimes and how early Christian individuals and communities dealt with both the human and the ritual dimensions.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Editorial symbols used in music transcriptions
Introduction: Contemporary approaches to medieval rituals for the dying
1 Religious elites: Rome, "Old Roman" tradition
Manuscript source: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Arch. Cap. S. Pietro F 11 pt. A (SP F 11)
2 Political and religious leaders: Sens, Cathedral of Saint Stephen
Manuscript source: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 934 (Paris 934)
3 With the laity: Orsières, Switzerland
Manuscript source: Bourg-Saint-Pierre, Hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernard, ms. 3 (ancien 10091) (GSB 3)
4 Among women: Abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Francis without Aldgate (England)
Manuscript source: Reigate (Surrey), Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, Cranston Library, Ms. 2322 (Cranston 2322)
5 Analysis: Variation and continuity within the liturgical tradition
Final considerations: Why sing?
Appendix: Contents of individual rituals
Bibliography
Index: Manuscripts cited (with abbreviations)
Index: Chants and other items from all rituals
Index: General
