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Origins of a Significant Medieval Genre: The Musical "Trope" up to the Twelfth Century

Origins of a Significant Medieval Genre: The Musical "Trope" up to the Twelfth Century N A N C Y VAN D E U S E N Origins of a Significant Medieval Genre: The Musical "Trope" up to the Twelfth Century uid ergo est tropos? What is a "trope"? By answering the question, QuuitUian raised it;' Bishop Durandus, one of the first to connect the term specifically to the Mass in the late thirteenth century, answered the question his own way.^ QuintiUan (95 A.D.) thought it was a metaphor, or, miore precisely, several analogy-types.^ Significantly, for Durandus, the term had only 'cf. Quintilian, Institutio oratoria: Book I, VIII, 15-18 (Latin edition with English translation H. E. Butler in Loeb Classical Library, I [Cambridge, Mass., repr. 1953]), pp. 152-155; Book VIII, VI, 1-19 (Loeb Cl. Lib. Ill, pp. 300-311); and Book IX, 1,1-5 (III, pp. 348-351). Although the definition of trope contained in Book IX is often quoted: "Est igitur tropos sermo a naturali et principali significatione translatus ad aliam omandae orationis gratia . . . ," Quintilian's discussion in Book VIII more thoroughly presents and exemplifies the concept of the trope genre. ^"In quibusdam ecclesiis trophi dicuntur pro psalmis ex institutione Gregorii pape ad mains gaudium de Christi adventu representandum. Est autem proprie http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Rhetorica University of California Press

Origins of a Significant Medieval Genre: The Musical "Trope" up to the Twelfth Century

Rhetorica , Volume 3 (4) – Oct 1, 1985

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0734-8584
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10.1525/rh.1985.3.4.245
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N A N C Y VAN D E U S E N Origins of a Significant Medieval Genre: The Musical "Trope" up to the Twelfth Century uid ergo est tropos? What is a "trope"? By answering the question, QuuitUian raised it;' Bishop Durandus, one of the first to connect the term specifically to the Mass in the late thirteenth century, answered the question his own way.^ QuintiUan (95 A.D.) thought it was a metaphor, or, miore precisely, several analogy-types.^ Significantly, for Durandus, the term had only 'cf. Quintilian, Institutio oratoria: Book I, VIII, 15-18 (Latin edition with English translation H. E. Butler in Loeb Classical Library, I [Cambridge, Mass., repr. 1953]), pp. 152-155; Book VIII, VI, 1-19 (Loeb Cl. Lib. Ill, pp. 300-311); and Book IX, 1,1-5 (III, pp. 348-351). Although the definition of trope contained in Book IX is often quoted: "Est igitur tropos sermo a naturali et principali significatione translatus ad aliam omandae orationis gratia . . . ," Quintilian's discussion in Book VIII more thoroughly presents and exemplifies the concept of the trope genre. ^"In quibusdam ecclesiis trophi dicuntur pro psalmis ex institutione Gregorii pape ad mains gaudium de Christi adventu representandum. Est autem proprie

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Published: Oct 1, 1985

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