Embellishing the Liturgy

Alejandro Enrique Planchart is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

Contents: Introduction; Part I Tropes in General: The troping hypothesis, Richard L. Crocker; Some observations on the interrelationships between trop repertories, David Hiley; Aux origines des tropes d'interpolation: le trope méloforme d'introït, Michel Huglo; Les 'libelli' de tropes et les premiers tropaires-prosaires, Michel Huglo; Tropes and the concept of genre, Ritva Jacobsson and Leo Treitler; Beyond a chant, 'Tui Sunt Caeli' and its tropes, John G. Johnstone; The liturgical function of the tropes, Ritva Jonsson; On the nature of transmission and change in trope repertories, Alejandro Enrique Planchart; Zum Verständnis des 'klassischen' Tropus, Bruno Stäblein. Part II Aquitaine and the West: Northern French elements in an early Aquitainian troper, Paul Evans; A new voice in the monastery: tropes and versus from 11th- and 12th-century Aquitaine, James Grier; Further notes on the grouping of the Aquitanian tropers, David G. Hughes. Part III St Gall and the East: Tropentypen in Sankt Gallen, Gunilla Björkvall and Andreas Haug; Some observations on the repertory of tropes at St Emmeram, Regensberg, David Hiley; From tuotilo to the 1st manuscripts: the shaping of a trope repertory at Saint Gall, Susan Rankin. Part IV The Ordinary: The earliest Agnus Dei melody and its tropes, Charles M. Atkinson; The Kyrie trope, David A. Bjork; Pax et sapienta: a thematic study on tropes from different traditions, Gunilla Iverson; Introducing the Gloria In Excelsis, Thomas Forrest Kelly. Part V Tropes in the Office: Melismatic tropes in the responsories for Matins, Hans-Jörgen Holman; New music from old: the structuring of responsory prosas, Thomas Forrest Kelly; Index.