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Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants: Psalmi, Threni, and Easter Vigil Canticles, written by Hornby, Emma, and Rebecca Maloy

Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants: Psalmi, Threni, and Easter Vigil Canticles,... Hornby, Emma, and Rebecca Maloy, Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants: Psalmi, Threni, and Easter Vigil Canticles. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music 13. Woodbridge, England: The Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 368 + 39 music examples + 39 figures + 50 tables. $ 130 hardback.Hornby and Maloy’s deep excavation into the Old Hispanic chant repertoire provides the kind of serious, detailed scholarship that is so essential to understanding medieval culture in all its complexity. Refusing hard disciplinary segregations, this text considers the main questions of musical history—how did melodies develop? how were they used? what effect did they have on their listeners?—within the larger context of liturgical and theological development, commentary, and interpretation.Music and Meaning is, admittedly, almost overwhelming in its level of detail. Over a hundred figures and tables, not to mention seven appendices (two in the book itself, five on the Boydell and Brewer website) compile and analyze information on the three chant genres under consideration, the psalmi and threni of the Old Hispanic Lenten liturgy and the canticles from the Easter Vigil. The sheer quantity of information in this book poses something of an obstacle for a non-specialist. For historical musicologists and liturgists, the book provides http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and the Arts Brill

Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants: Psalmi, Threni, and Easter Vigil Canticles, written by Hornby, Emma, and Rebecca Maloy

Keyes, Samuel
Religion and the Arts , Volume 21 (1-2): 2 – Jan 1, 2017
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Hornby, Emma, and Rebecca Maloy, Music and Meaning in Old Hispanic Lenten Chants: Psalmi, Threni, and Easter Vigil Canticles. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music 13. Woodbridge, England: The Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 368 + 39 music examples + 39 figures + 50 tables. $ 130 hardback.Hornby and Maloy’s deep excavation into the Old Hispanic chant repertoire provides the kind of serious, detailed scholarship that is so essential to understanding medieval culture in all its complexity. Refusing hard disciplinary segregations, this text considers the main questions of musical history—how did melodies develop? how were they used? what effect did they have on their listeners?—within the larger context of liturgical and theological development, commentary, and interpretation.Music and Meaning is, admittedly, almost overwhelming in its level of detail. Over a hundred figures and tables, not to mention seven appendices (two in the book itself, five on the Boydell and Brewer website) compile and analyze information on the three chant genres under consideration, the psalmi and threni of the Old Hispanic Lenten liturgy and the canticles from the Easter Vigil. The sheer quantity of information in this book poses something of an obstacle for a non-specialist. For historical musicologists and liturgists, the book provides

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