Liturgical Music and Drama
Nils Holger Petersen
The chapter gives a brief survey of the huge development in liturgical music for medieval Latin Church from orally transmitted chant eighth century to large-scale polyphonic mass composition fifteenth. However, it also points continued presence monophonic throughout period. From modern anthropological point view, ceremonies which belonged were rituals. Through appropriation, much this has become part listening practices entirely different contexts. appropriation Roman and beginnings musical notation under Carolingians are discussed, along with rise new devotional during following centuries, including what been termed dramatic liturgy, particular Good Friday Adoration Cross.
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