Composition and Local Planning of Liturgical Chant in the Middle Ages
Nils Holger Petersen
Striking features of the communion series in Mass Proper as laid out by James McKinnon indicate a high degree liturgico-theological planning 7th to 8th centuries. As pointed McKinnon, however, overall chants for church year was never completed.' Within next century so-called import liturgy into Carolingian kingdom took place. This process brought with it final composition Gregorian repertory has been handed down us through written transmission following In spite different opinions among modern scholars precise nature and rise such musical notations seems that outcome these efforts major monasteries although certain oral past were preserved compositional control over course melodies.2 Whereas Richard Crocker described chant marked Roman rigour severity assignment texts Frank-
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