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Title:Sequences of Nidaros : A Nordic Repertory & Its European Context
Series:(Senter for middelalderstudier, NTNU. Skrifter nr.20)
Author:Lori Kruckenberg & Andreas Haug (eds)
ISBN:8251921058 : 9788251921053
Illustrations:b/w illus, tables & charts
Format:Paperback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:422
Weight: 1.03 Kg.
Published:Tapir Academic Press - October 2006
List Price: 29.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Medieval & Renaissance music: c1000 to c1600: c1000CE-c1500


The sequence was one of the most important types of music of the Middle Ages. Performed during the mass and sung throughout the churches of medieval Europe, the Latin poetry of this new compositional genre distinguished itself from what is commonly called 'Gregorian chant'. The sequences of the medieval Cathedral of Nidaros and its vast archdiocese comprise a song repertoire remarkable for its sheer size, chronological comprehensiveness, and stylistic diversity. The current volume presents eleven studies on this musical tradition, and the authors, using a wide range of perspectives and approaches -- paleographical, codicological, repertorial, textual, musical, and exegetical -- place this Nordic practice in its broader European context. This book is more than a study of a regional tradition of a single genre: it instead touches on topics and methodologies fundamental to contemporary research on chant.

Introduction; Making a Sequence Repertory: The Tradition of the Ordo Nidrosiensis Ecclesiae; Sequences in the Fragments at the Swedish National Archives; The English Background to the Nidaros Sequences; Sequences of German Origin in the Repertoire of Nidaros; Two Selected Sequence Sources from Norway; Sequences in Two Icelandic Mass Books from the Later Middle Ages; Oriens et occidens, immo teres mundi circulus Notker's Clare sanctorum in the German, Anglo-French, and Nidaros Traditions; Poetry, Melody, and Mode: The Transmission of Notker's Sancti baptiste; Grates honos ierarchia: A Sequence by Hermannus Contractus in the Nidaros Tradition; Zur Überlieferung der Sequenz Sucrosancta hodierne festivitatis preconia nach Nidaros; Two Sequentiae Novae at Nidaros: Celeste organum and Stola iocunditatis.