Liturgy, Music, and Identity in Medieval St Andrews

MS W1 and Its Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-83765-337-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 424 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music

Analyses the role of music and liturgy at St Andrews, through a detailed study of one of the most important extant musical manuscripts from the thirteenth century.

Medieval musical and liturgical sources both prescribed ritual performance and represented identity in material form, but their makers and owners are usually unknown or little studied. This book is a study of the musical and liturgical sources produced for St Andrews Cathedral, the ecclesial centre of the Scottish kingdom, during the pivotal years of the thirteenth century. Focusing on the unique copy of polyphony emerging from Paris, known as W1 (Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 628, Helmst.), as well as the St Andrews antiphoner (Paris, BN MS Lat. 12036) commissioned by William Malveisin, the bishop of St Andrews, a decade earlier, it presents new liturgical, musical, and textual analyses that reveal the complex nature of identity in medieval Scotland. These close readings are framed by broader contextual studies of the religious communities of St Andrews and their contribution to the cult of Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland, illuminating the interactions between politics, religion and music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steiner, Katherine Kennedy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Music Examples
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Notes

Introduction
1 Malveisin, Bishop of the Scots
2 Liturgical Remodelling at St Andrews
3 The Organista of St Andrews
4 Localization in W1
5 The Lady Mass at St Andrews
6 Singing Saint Andrew in his City
Conclusions

Appendix I: The Contents and Structure of W1
Appendix II: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 12036
Appendix III: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 1218
Glossary
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Steiner, Katherine Kennedy
KATE KENNEDY STEINER is an associate professor of Music at Conrad Grebel University College, an affiliated college of the University of Waterloo. Her research on medieval chant, polyphony, and liturgy in the British Isles has been published in Plainsong and Medieval Music and the Journal of Musicology.