Beneventanum Troporum Corpus I: Tropes of the Proper of the Mass from Southern Italy, A.D. 1000–1250
Kenneth Levy
The south of Italy in modern times has seemed a region slighted by fortune ... where Cristo si e fermato. In early medieval times, it was robust Lombard duchy that at its northern extreme stretched almost to Rome and the took all but Calabrian toe Apulian heel peninsula. Its political center ancient Beneventum, sixty kilometers east Naples. A hundred northwest, dominating road Adriatic, mother house Benedictine Order Monte Cassino. Established 529, this would influence European spirituality for ages come. Farther pilgrimage site Gargano, Archangel Michael appeared late fifth century. Down coast were Bari Brindisi, gateways Byzantium Holy Land. Charlemagne wrested control much territory from Lombards 774, after further victories 788 he joined Carolingian monarchy. zone's cultural significance long been recognized. Campanian model basis Lindisfarne Gospels ca. 700; illuminations Exultet rolls attracted art historians; Italian readings ecclesiastical poetry taken into Analecta hymnica. image owes stylish minuscule book hand, E.A. Loew's Script (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914) went beyond paleography consider role transmission classics. Study music began with R. Andoyer 1911. Publications R.-J. Hesbert 1930s emphasized archaism authority traditions. Hesbert's facsimile edition an eleventh-century gradual Paleographie musicale (PM), volume 14 (Le Codex 10.673 de la Bibliotheque vaticane, fonds latin (X[I.sub.e] siecle) graduel beneventain [Tournai, 1931-36]), accompanied massive commentary; staffless neumes PM supplemented twelfth-century on lined staff 15 VI. 34 capitulaire Benevent (X[I.sub.e]-X[I.sub.e] siecle). Graduel avec prosaire et tropaire 1937]). past two decades have had particularly rich musical harvest. Five categories can be distinguished: (1) Old-Beneventan chants; (2) Carolingian-Gregorian Proper (3) tropes Gregorian Propers; (4) Mass Ordinary; (5) sequences, prosulae, hymns, so forth (such as Exultet). For Beneventan repertory (no. 1), Thomas F. Kelly offered fulldress study prior Chant (Cambridge: Cambridge University 1989); then 21 (Les Temoins manuscrits du chant Beneventain [Solesmes, 1992]) there are most surviving Old melodic sources facsimile; chants fascinate, prospectus observes, their prolixity repetition presque incessante petites formules melodiques invariables. no. 2, Carolinglan-Gregorian Propers, ample documentation exists; addition three full Beneventan-Gregorian manuscripts Propers available black-and-white facsimiles (PM 14, 15, 20 [La Missale antiquum. No. 33 (olim VI 33) des Archives Archiepiscopoles (Bern, 1983)!), color others promised series Codices gregoriani La Linea Padua. Office lag behind, less abundant, best remaining inventory Benevento V. Corpus antiphonalium officii, II. other (nos. 3-5) fall largely under heading tropes, now, thanks devotion John Boe Alejandro Planchart, about half material become monumental publications Beneventanum troporum corpus (BTC) review: remainder (one hopes, including sequences) should before issue same highly competent editorial hands. …
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