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  • Creating and Using Liturgies for the Commune sanctorum in Medieval Iberia

  • Emma Hornby, Marcus Jones, Melanie Shaffer
  • Journal:
    Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle / Volume 54 / April 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 May 2024, pp. 94-118
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  • Providing source material for liturgical practice on a significant proportion of feast days in each sanctorale cycle, the Commune sanctorum liturgies had crucial daily importance for medieval Christians. Despite their frequent use, or perhaps because of this prosaic nature, the Commune sanctorum has rarely been considered as a liturgical phenomenon in its own right. Focusing on the Old Hispanic liturgy, this article explores the creation and presentation of the Commune sanctorum. We address systematically a question left unexamined in previous scholarship: where did the Commune sanctorum come from? We first survey the Old Hispanic material shared with other rites. Turning then to the Old Hispanic rite’s unique material, we examine materials found only in the Commons and those shared elsewhere in the rite. We set out a methodology for determining the direction of origin for such shared chants, demonstrating the importance of proper saints’ liturgies in the creation of the Commune sanctorum as well as the creative interest in producing new Commons materials. In addition to the origin of the Commune sanctorum, this article engages with manuscript presentation, asking how Commons materials were organized and how such presentations guided liturgical practitioners. A deeper understanding of the Commune sanctorum opens a window onto one of the foundational devotional experiences of Western Christendom.

Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell
  • Sources, Style, Performance, Historiography
  • Edited by Emma Hornby, David Maw
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 March 2023
    Print publication:
    15 April 2010
  • Articles on English music, from the medieval period to the present day, centred on four of the major areas of scholarly enquiry.

Understanding the Old Hispanic Office
  • Texts, Melodies, and Devotion in Early Medieval Iberia
  • Emma Hornby, Kati Ihnat, Rebecca Maloy, Raquel Rojo Carrillo
  • Published online:
    07 January 2023
    Print publication:
    22 December 2022
  • 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 creation.

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