Cultural Transfer of Music Between Byzantium and the West?: The Case of the Chants of the So-Called Missa Graeca

English | 661 pages | Brill Academic Pub (April 24, 2024) | 9004513078 | PDF | 27 MB
This is the first comprehensive study of Greek language ordinary chants (Gloria/Doxa, Credo/Pisteuo, Sanctus/Hagios and Agnus Dei/Amnos tu theu) in Western manuscripts from the 9th to the 14th centuries. For the first time, this book presents an in-depth analysis of these chants and their historical, linguistic and theological-liturgical environment from a Byzantine perspective.

The new approach enables the author to refute numerous (and largely contradictory) theories on the origin and development of the Missa Graeca and provides new answers to old questions.