Fixity, Flexibility, and Compositional Process in Old Hispanic Chant
Emma Hornby|Rebecca Maloy
Old Hispanic (or ‘Mozarabic’) chant bears witness to a transmission that was rather different from of the Franco-Roman mass Proper. Despite evidence for use notated exemplars late ninth or early tenth century, many melodies did not attain fixity associated with mass. The present essay presents these chants continued change in an oral tradition interacted written one eleventh century. Close analysis makes it possible pinpoint some features seem have been fixed tradition, varied regionally, and others could on apparently casual basis.
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