The St Gall passion play : : music and performance / / Peter Macardle.

The early-fourteenth-century St Gall Passion Play comes from the Central Rhineland. Unfortunately its music (over one hundred Latin and German chants) is given in the manuscript only as brief incipits, without any musical notation. This interdisciplinary study reconstructs the musical stratum of the...

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Superior document:Ludus ; 10
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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Ludus ; 10.
Physical Description:1 online resource (461 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The Text and the Problem
  • Liturgy and Localization
  • Approaches
  • ‘Cantat’ – ‘dicat’ – ‘respondeat’ Directions and Performers
  • A note on the transcription and editing of text and notation
  • Localizing the Play
  • Before the Passion
  • The Passion (1)
  • The Passion (2)
  • The Resurrection and the Harrowing of Hell
  • The Empty Tomb
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography.