Nardini, Luisa - Chants, Hypertext, and Prosulas

Chants, Hypertext, and Prosulas presents the first comprehensive study to integrate textual and musical analyses of liturgical prosulas as they were recorded in medieval Beneventan manuscripts.

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CONTENTS

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part 1
Chapter 1. Prosulas: General features, history and scholarship
Chapter 2. Prosulas in manuscripts
2.1 Prosulas in Beneventan Manuscripts: The earliest stages
2.2 Manuscripts from Benevento
2.3 Manuscripts from Other Regional Centres
2.4 Other Fragmentary Sources
2.5 Extra regional concordances
Part 2. Prosulas and their Formal Features
Chapter 3. Formal Features and Notation
3.1 Prosulas and Their Texts
3.2 The Notating of Prosulas
3.3 Notation
Chapter 4. Prosulas for Graduals and Tracts
4.1 The Gradual
4.2 The Tract
Chapter 5. Prosulas for Alleluia and Offertories
5.1 The Alleluia
5.2 The Offertory
Part 3. Prosulas and the Liturgical Year
Chapter 6. General remarks
Chapter 7. Feasts of the Temporal
Chapter 8. Feasts of the Sanctoral
8.1 Prosulas of the Oldest Lombard Sanctoral
8.2 Prosulas and the Miliey of the Cathedrals and Urban Monasteries
Index