Post-Gregorian chant in southern Italy
Matthew Peattie
The manuscripts of the Beneventan zone—the region southern Italy named for distinctive script produced there in early Middle Ages—are well documented as repositories a rich variety distinct musical repertories. A single south Italian Gradual late 10th, 11th or 12th century may contain not only significant record central Gregorian repertory, but also music from Rite (the autochthonous liturgical repertory region), local and imported tropes sequences, smaller number melodies Roman, Milanese Greek provenance. Luisa Nardini’s magnificent monograph, Interlacing traditions: Neo-Gregorian chant Propers tells story yet another important regional repertory. question is corpus chants composed after diffusion Italy. These melodies, which Nardini describes ‘formally liturgically compatible with chant’ (p.3), serve to provide Proper feasts included (such formularies cults saints), added calendar 10th centuries, individual that appear reflect ‘a desire add flavor more universal Mass formularies’ (p.3).
Early Music