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Text, Liturgy, and Music in the Hispanic Rite: The Vespertinus Genre, 2021
The Hispanic rite, a medieval non-Roman Western liturgy, was practiced across the Iberian Peninsu... more The Hispanic rite, a medieval non-Roman Western liturgy, was practiced across the Iberian Peninsula for over half a millennium and functioned as the most distinct marker of Christian identity in this region. As Christians typically began every liturgical day throughout the year by singing a vespertinus, this chant genre in particular provides a unique window into the cultural and religious life of medieval Iberia. The Hispanic rite has the largest corpus of extant manuscripts of all non-Roman liturgies in the West, which testifies to the importance placed on their transmission through political and cultural upheavals. Its chants, however, use a notational system that lacks clear specification of pitch and has kept them barred from in-depth study.
Text, Liturgy, and Music in the Hispanic Rite is the first detailed analysis of the interactions between textual, liturgical, and musical variables across the entire extant repertoire of a chant genre central to the Hispanic rite, the vespertinus. By approaching the vespertini through a holistic methodology that integrates liturgy, melody, and text, author Raquel Rojo Carrillo identifies the genre’s norms and traces the different shapes it adopts across the liturgical year and on different occasions. In this way, the book offers an unprecedented insight into the liturgical edifice of the Hispanic rite and the daily experience of Christians in medieval Iberia.
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In the chapter ''Old Hispanic Chant Manuscripts of Toledo', I argue that these manuscripts, rathe... more In the chapter ''Old Hispanic Chant Manuscripts of Toledo', I argue that these manuscripts, rather than containing a distinct rendition of the Old Hispanic rite, bear witness to a wider Iberian tradition. I present textual, musical, liturgical and codicological evidence to contest the twentieth-century classification of these manuscripts into two ‘liturgical traditions’. I propose that their differences reflect the extent to which their contexts of production were diverse. I offer an alternative, more accurate, definition of the Old Hispanic rite.
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PhD dissertation (unpublished)
This PhD thesis is a first, larger, version of my University of Oxford Press book Text, Liturgy, ... more This PhD thesis is a first, larger, version of my University of Oxford Press book Text, Liturgy, and Music in the Hispanic Rite: The Vespertinus Genre. For this reason, I decided not to publish it in this PhD version. It nevertheless contains valuable data (especially in the section about standard cadential and opening patters in Chapter 4) that I had to leave out from the published book in order to make it more easily publishable in this format. If you wish to fully understand my detailed view on the Hispanic rite's standard cadential and opening patterns, I would be more than happy to send you a pdf copy of my unpublished PhD thesis with this data.
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Traditio 75, 177–223, 2020
Much is known about processions within the Roman liturgy, but the processions of the Old Hispanic... more Much is known about processions within the Roman liturgy, but the processions of the Old Hispanic rite - practiced in most of Christian Iberia until ca. AD 1080 - have not been studied. Explicit evidence about Old Hispanic processional characteristics and liturgical contexts is preserved in manuscript rubrics. Processions happened around or during Mass (for example, on Palm Sunday), at the end of Vespers or Matutinum (for example, the consecration of a basilica), or outside the usual daily liturgy (for example, votive ordos). We have collated all the extant Old Hispanic rubrics pertaining to liturgical movement. Some of these unquestionably refer to processions, while others describe ceremonies that might better be described more informally as “liturgy in motion”. We focus primarily on the processional rubrics, while also engaging with other liturgical movement. We identify the chant genres associated with processions, and outline the processional practices attested in the rubrics.
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Anuario De Historia De La Iglesia, Mar 31, 2023
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Understanding the Old Hispanic Office
Based on highly original archival and palaeographical research, this is the first methodological ... more Based on highly original archival and palaeographical research, this is the first methodological and factual primer in English on the distinctive liturgical tradition of early medieval Spain. It provides clear and approachable blueprints for future work on the description and analysis (musical, theological and cultural) of this and other liturgies. For non-specialists, the authors introduce the main features of Old Hispanic liturgy, its manuscripts, its services and its liturgical genres. For specialists, they model a variety of ways to work with the Old Hispanic materials in depth, incorporating notational, musical, theological and historical perspectives. For those interested in musical notation, the book lays out a method for working with unpitched neumes, with illustrative results, that will inspire and challenge others working on monophonic chant. For historians and liturgists, the texts and melodies are analysed in combination with the theological context that informed their c...
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Plainsong and Medieval Music
The editors hope you and your loved ones have remained healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Like... more The editors hope you and your loved ones have remained healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Like you, we have needed to adapt to the unexpected. Libraries having been closed we have been unable to consult materials in the usual way. The following bibliography has a simpler format than usual and has relied more than usual on submissions of bibliographical information from the authors. We are extremely grateful to all who contributed this year. Moreover Raquel Rojo Carrillo could not work on LCB 29 because she gave birth to a son last February. Congratulations! During the shutdown LCB 29 was compiled solely by Marie Winkelmüller-Urechia. LCB 29 retains the format established byMichael Paucker and expanded by Raquel Rojo Carrillo and Marie Winkelmüller-Urechia: (1) Additions, including new volumes of collections and reviews of publications previous listed; (2) Editions and facsimiles; (3) Books and reprints; (4) Congress proceedings; (5) Chant journals; (6) Collections of essays and dictionaries; (7) Articles in periodicals and Festschriften; (8) Ph.D. dissertations; and (9) Websites and online databases. Highlights of this year’s publications on liturgical chant include a new volume in the series Corpus Monodicum based at the University Würzburg. This volume ranges from tropes to Mass antiphons. This year also saw significant publications on the Libri ordinarii from Nivelles, Regensburg, Passau and Seckau. Publications on local chant traditions include Terence Bailey’s edition and commentaries on the Ambrosian psallendae. With sincere appreciation for your cooperation and communication, we again ask that you send references (including reviews) of new published works for future installments of the LCB to Dr Raquel Rojo Carrillo and Dr Marie Winkelmüller-Urechia at liturgchantbiblio@gmail.com. Thank you very much in advance!
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A Companion to Medieval Toledo
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Early Music, 2014
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Traditio
Much is known about processions within the Roman liturgy, but the processions of the Old Hispanic... more Much is known about processions within the Roman liturgy, but the processions of the Old Hispanic rite practiced in most of Christian Iberia until ca. 1080 have not been studied. Explicit evidence about Old Hispanic processional characteristics and liturgical contexts is preserved in manuscript rubrics. Processions happened around or during Mass (for example, on Palm Sunday), at the end of Vespers or Matutinum (for example, the consecration of a basilica), or outside the usual daily liturgy (for example, votive ordos). We have collated all of the extant Old Hispanic rubrics pertaining to liturgical movement. Some of these unquestionably refer to processions, while others describe ceremonies that might better be described more informally as “liturgy in motion.” We focus primarily on the processional rubrics, while also engaging with other liturgical movement. We identify the chant genres associated with processions and outline the processional practices attested in the rubrics.
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Text, Liturgy, and Music in the Hispanic Rite is the first detailed analysis of the interactions between textual, liturgical, and musical variables across the entire extant repertoire of a chant genre central to the Hispanic rite, the vespertinus. By approaching the vespertini through a holistic methodology that integrates liturgy, melody, and text, author Raquel Rojo Carrillo identifies the genre’s norms and traces the different shapes it adopts across the liturgical year and on different occasions. In this way, the book offers an unprecedented insight into the liturgical edifice of the Hispanic rite and the daily experience of Christians in medieval Iberia.
PhD dissertation (unpublished)
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Text, Liturgy, and Music in the Hispanic Rite is the first detailed analysis of the interactions between textual, liturgical, and musical variables across the entire extant repertoire of a chant genre central to the Hispanic rite, the vespertinus. By approaching the vespertini through a holistic methodology that integrates liturgy, melody, and text, author Raquel Rojo Carrillo identifies the genre’s norms and traces the different shapes it adopts across the liturgical year and on different occasions. In this way, the book offers an unprecedented insight into the liturgical edifice of the Hispanic rite and the daily experience of Christians in medieval Iberia.