BEHIND HARTKER’S ANTIPHONER: NEGLECTED FRAGMENTS OF THE EARLIEST SANKT GALLEN TONARY
Henry Parkes
Prior to the famous Hartker Antiphoner (Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 390/391), copied in Sankt Gallen c. 1000, there survives no complete, fully-notated witness Romano-Frankish chant repertory for Office. Scholars have long known about related tonary, possibly a decade older, which is be found ordered by melody. But unrecognised until now are remains of second tonary (Stadtarchiv Goslar, Handschriftenfragmente MThMu 1/1), datable early tenth century. The combined testimony these two tonaries, together with other surviving fragments, taken as basis reassessment Office tenth-century Gallen. Nineteenth-century scholarship gave Hartker’s an arguably undeserved reputation authorised monument Gregorian Chant. This view seems unsustainable light many apparent editorial interventions, yet it may precisely what monks had set out achieve.
Early Music History