Osanna! New light on the Palm Sunday processional antiphon series
Clyde W. Brockett
A model for the Roman liturgical order processions on Sundays was Easter, festal day described in Ordo Romanus I, rather than preceding Sunday, perhaps a more obvious pattern procession within Proprium de tempore.Michel Andrieu, ed., Les Ordines Romani du haut Moyen Age, 5 vols. (Louvain, 1931, 1948–61) II, 68–9, 5: ‘nam prima feria regio tertia, id est paschae, secunda feria’, etc. ; 7: ‘Diebus itaque sollemnibus, Pascha’. ‘Id est’ might be interpreted ‘for example’. Note that Easter is only one example of papal processional procedures found this ordo. See John F. Baldovin, The Urban Character Christian Worship, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 228 (Rome, 1987), 131–2. present study originated as paper session ‘Music Festal Days’ at 34th International Congress Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May, 1999. singing by Hebrew people Hosanna and Benedictus qui venit to acclaim progressing into Jerusalem Palm Sunday would seem ideal archetype with song replicate biblical event, reported uniformly all four Gospels.Matt. 21:8–9; Mark 11:8–10, Luke 19:36–8 (with different wording); 12:12–13. Old Testament presaging Psalm 117:26. visual replay symbols olive branches palm fronds commemorative Palmesel, integral procession, have been studied critical detail Karl Young many who followed wake his pathbreaking Drama Church. Much music has expertly Terence Bailey. On musical prayer formularies from typikon early Western patristic citations (i.e. Bede, Aldhelm, Amalarius Drogo Metz), see Hermann J. Gräf, Palmenweihe und Palmprozession der lateinischen Liturgie (Kaldenkirchen, 1950), 10–15, 30–2. also Young, Church, 2 (Oxford, 1962), I: 90–8, 519, 527, 533, 549; Bailey, Processions Sarum Church (Toronto, 1971), 33–40 (Examples 6–14); 166–7 (Table 2). (The acclamation venit–Hosanna excelsis follows Sanctus Mass precluded movement its position liturgy.) By time pilgrim Egeria, visited 380s, commemoration Evangelists' historiae had engendered meeting very spot where times infants, strewing palms sang celebrated verse, now converted refrain.‘Et jam cum coeperit esse hora undecima [die dominica] legitur ille locus evangelio, ubi infantes ramis vel palmis occurrerunt Domino, dicentes: nomine Domini. Et statim levat se episcopus et omnis populus; porro inde summo monte Oliveti totum pedibus itur. Nam totus populus ante ipsum hymnis antiphonis, respondentes semper; Domini’. [Peregrinatio ad loca sancta] Itinerarium 31, 1, ed. Pierre Maraval, Egérie: Journal Voyage, Sources Chrétiennes 296 (Paris, 1982), 274; trans. Wilkinson, Egeria's Travels Holy Land (Jerusalem, 1981), 133. Other translations descriptive material are Cyrille Vogel, Liturgy: An Introduction Sources, rev. William G. Storey Niels Krogh Rasmussen (Washington, DC, 1986), 11. date report, Peter Jeffery, ‘The Earliest Chant Repertory Recovered: Georgian Witnesses Chant’, American Musicological Society, 47/1 (1994), 2–3. Perhaps half-century before, Chrysostom (Homilia habita magnum hebdomadam 2) allied exclamation exhortation ‘Praise Lord, O my soul!’ 145. James McKinnon, Music Early Literature (Cambridge, 83 (no. 175); cf. Thomas Talley, Origins Liturgical Year (Collegeville, MN, 1991), 186. For agendas according other Eastern practices (e.g., Armenian, Anastasis Typikon) Character, 77, 80–1, 98.
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