Catholic Theological College

Sacred Sounds 2003

Leturer: John Stinson, Emeritus Scholar, La Trobe University

j.stinson@latrobe.edu.au Telephone 93470039

 

Sacred Sounds: a survey of the role of music in Christian liturgy from the beginning of the Church to the present day.

The focus of this course is on the ways in which music has functioned in Christian liturgies rather than on changes in musical style.  It will necessarily impinge on different theologies, reforms and liturgical changes, which will be examined on a century-by-century basis.

Aims:

1. To examine the function of music in the Christian liturgy from its origins to he present day;

2. To facilitate acquiring aural familiarity with the various styles of music used in the liturgy and

3. To examine critically the relationship between music and liturgical practice from the origins of Christian liturgy to the present day from the perspective of primary source documents.

Class Contact: three hours per week (lecture / seminar)

The classes will normally take the form of a lecture for one hour, the delivery and discussion of a class report for one hour and discussion of a recording of relevant music for one hour.  Students will be expected to prepare for the class discussion by reading and preparing a précis of one chapter or journal article per week, and listening to and preparing discussion points about one recording per week.

Assessment: two class reports, one on an assigned research topic and one on a prescribed recording. 

On the understanding that improvement will take place in the course of the semester, the first report to be delivered will be graded at 20% and the second at 30%.  In addition there will be one 3,000 word essay, due Monday 9 June, weighted at 50%.

 

Bibliography:

Blume, Friedrich.  Protestant Church Music New York, Norton, 1974.

Bradley, Ian.  Abide with Me: the world of Victorian Hymn GIA, 1997.

Cardine, Eugene.  Gregorian Semiology tr. Robert Fowells, Solesmes, 1982.

Graduale triplex, Solesmes, 1979.

*Hiley, David: Western Plainchant: a Handbook, Oxford: OUP, 1993

Fassler, Margot & Rebecca A. Baltzer, The Divine Ofice in the Latin Middle Ages, N.Y.: OUP, 2000.

Jeffery, Peter: Re-Envisioning past musical cultures: ethnomusicology in the study of Gregorian chant, Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology, Chicago: CUP, 1992

*Levy, Kenneth.  Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians, Princeton UP, 1998

*Mckinnon, James.  The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass Proper, University of California Press, 2000.

Macey, Patrick Bonfire songs: Savonarola's Musical Legacy, Oxford: OUP 1999.

Van Dijk, S. J. P. and J. Hazelden Walker, The origins of the Modern Roman Liturgy London: Darton Longmann & Todd, 1960

Vogel, Cyrille.  Medieval Liturgy: an introduction to the sources, Washington: Pastoral Press, 1986.

Wilson, Blake.  Music and Merchants: the Laudesi companies of Renaissance Florence, Oxford University Press, 1992.

 

 

Weekly Schedule

 

 

Week

Date

Topic

Repertoire

Source

1

24 February

Introduction: overview, practical arrangements,

 bibliography, discography;

409C Formation of liturgy in text and melody; Old Roman chant

2

5 March

10C: The first written sources

Gregorian 1

Einsiedeln

3

10 March

11C: Guido d’Arezzo

Gregorian 2

M159

4

17 March

12C Hildegard & Codex Calixtinus

Hildegard

Riesen

5

24 March

13C: Square notation;

State Library

Poissy

6

31 March

14C: Ars nova masses; Laude

Machaut

Machaut

7

7 April

15C: Music and Liturgy preceding the Reformation: Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin

Missa ecce ancilla

Brussels 55570

Easter Break

8

28 April

16C: Trent, Palestrina and the Counter-Reformation

Missa Papae Marcelli

Rimini Antiphonal

8a

 

8b

10 May

Devotio Moderna Melbourne Autumn Music Festival,

8pm Trinity College

Josquin, Prince of Music, Ensemble Gombert, Xavier College Chapel, Kew, 8pm.

JAS to present a paper in Kalamazoo

9

19 May

17C: Confessional musics: Anglican, Calvinits and Lutheran developments

Grandi Motets

ASLIII15

10

26 May

18C: Mass, Oratorio & passion

Klagleid

St John Passion

10a

29 May

J. S. Bach: Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein:

 St John’s Southgate 7.30pm

11

2 June

19C: Thomas Cotterill v. Regina, 1819: the triumph of the hymn?

Hymns

Ancient & Modern

Essays due 9 June

12

9 June

20C: From Solesmes to Vatican II

Chant reforms

Liber Usualis

Graduale Triplex

 

Recordings to be discussed

 

1

24 February

4-9C: Formation of liturgy in text and melody

Chants de l'Église de Rome des VIIe et VIIIe siècles: période byzantine Harmonia Mundi 901218

2

3? March

10C: The first written sources

The tradition of Gregorian Chant, Bannwart Archiv 2533131

3

10 March

11C: Guido d’Arezzo and music reading

The Major Feasts of the Church Year, Joppich, Archiv 2723084.

Strunk 16 & 16

4

17 March

12C Hildegard & Codex Calixtinus

Vox Iberica I: Donnersöhne - Sons of Thunder Music for St. James the Apostle: Codex Calixtinus, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77199

Canticles of Ecstacy, Sequentia DHM0547277320 2

5

24 March

13C: Square notation and the spread of the Roman Curial use.

Haec Dies, Move MD3144

Perotin Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier ECM New Series 1385

6

31 March

14C: Vernacular and the liturgy: Ars nova masses; Laude

Mazchaut Mass, Hiliard eansemble, Hyperion CDA66358.

A Florentine Annunciation Move 3094.

Laude: Medieval Italian Spiritual Songs, Thomas Binkley, dir. Focus 912

7

7 April

15C: Music and Liturgy preceding the Reformation: Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin

Dufay: Missa Ecce ancilla Domini Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard, Virgin Veritas 45050

Josquin: L’Homme Arné Masses Gimell CDGIM019

Easter Break

8

28 April

16C: Trent, Palestrina and the Counter-Reformation

Missa Papae Marcelli, The Sixteen, Collins 50092

9

19 May

17C: Confessional musics: Anglican, Calvinits and Lutheran developments

Grandi: Vulnerasti cor meum Sacred Music, René Jacobs et al. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77281

10

26 May

18C: Mass, Oratorio & passion

Klagleid, Michael Chance, Chandos CHAN 0675

11

2 June

19C: Thomas Cotterill v. Regina, 1819: the triumph of the hymn?

Sing, ye Heavens. Hymns for all time.  The Cambridge Singers, Directed by John Rutter. Collegium Records. COLCD 126

12

9 June

20C: From Solesmes to Vatican II

John Tavener, Eternity’s Sunrise, HMU 907231

 

 

Sources to be discussed:

1

4-9

VatLat5319,

*Joseph. Dyer, 'Prolegomena to a History of Music and Liturgy at Rome in the Middle Ages', Essays on Medieval Music in honor of David G. Hughes, Harvard, 1995, 87-115

*Peter Jeffrey, ‘Rome and Jerusalem: from Oral Tradition to written repertory in two ancient liturgical centers’, , Essays on Medieval Music in honor of David G. Hughes, Harvard, 1995, 207-248.

*Peter Jeffrey, ‘The lost chant tradition of early christian Jerusalem’, Early Music History 11 (1992), 151-190.

Kenneth Levy, ‘A new look at Old Roman Chant II’ Early Music History 20 (2001) 173-197.

Chants de l'Église de Rome des VIIe et VIIIe siècles: période byzantine Harmonia Mundi 901218

2

10

Einsiedeln 121,

James Mckinnon, The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass Proper, University of California Press, 2000.

O. Lang, ed.: Codex 121 Einsiedeln: Graduale und Sequenzen Notkers von St. Gallen: Kommentar zum Faksimile (Weinheim, 1991) [LTU]

Easter Mass

3

11

Montpellier 159,

David Hiley, Western Plainchant: a Handbook, Oxford: OUP, 1993

Guido d’Arezzo, Prologus antiphonarii sui; Epistola de ignotu cantu in Oliver Strunk, Source readings in Music History, N.Y., Norton, 1950.

Christmas Mass

4

12

Riesen Codex,

Barbara Newman, Symphonia : a critical edition of the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum [Symphony of the harmony of celestial revelations]Cornell University Press, 1988.

Saint Hildegard,. Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum.

 Dendermonde, St.-Pieters & Paulusabdij, ms. Cod. 9 [facsimile] Peer: Alamire, 1991.

Hildegard ‘O ecclesia’

5

13

Poissy Antiphonal,

 

 

 

Verdun 759

*Joan Naughton, ‘Books for a Dominican Nuns’ choir: illustrated liturgical manuscripts at St Luis de Poissy, c. 1330-1350’ in The Art of the Book ed. Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir, Exeter UP,

Verdun, Bibliothèque Municipale 759 ed. Nino Albarosa & Alberto Turco, Padova 1994.

State Library visit

6

14

Machaut A,

*Anne Walters Robertson, Machaut at Reims, Cambridge UP, 2002.

Machaut mass

7

15

Brussels 5557,

Craig Wright, Music at the Court of Burgundy, a documentary history, Cambridge, Mass: Medieval Academy of America

*Pamela F. Starr, ‘Rome as the centre of the universe: Papal grace and music patronage’, Esrly Music History 11 (1992) 223-262.

Josquin Missa L’Homme arme

8

16

Metrical psalms;

 

 

 

 

Book of Common Prayer

R.A. Leaver: ‘Goostly psalmes and spirituall songes’: English and Dutch Metrical Psalms from Coverdale to Utenhove 1535–1566 (Oxford, 1991)

*Christian Thomas Leitmeir, ‘Catholic Music in the diocese of Augsburg c. 1600’, Early Music History 21 (2002), 117-173.

*John Stinson, ‘The Rimini Antiphonal: Palimpsest Music and Renaissance Liturgical Practice’, in Reading texts and images, ed. Bernard J. Muir, Exeter, 2002, pp. 57-92.

Missa Papae Marcelli,

9

17

Medici Edition

David Hiley, Western Plainchant: a Handbook, Oxford: OUP, 1993

Monteverdi Vespers 1610

10

18

Wesley Hymns

*John Wesley, The Power of Music (1779); repr. in The Methodist Hymn Book (1933)

Klagleid,

11

19

Hymns ancient & modern

*Robert Hayburn, Papal legislation on music, Collegeville, 1979, chapters 7-10

Sing, ye Heavens

12

20

Liber Usualis, Graduale Triplex. 

Eugene Cardine, Gregorian Semiology , tr. Robert Fowels, Solesmes, 1982

Eternity’s Sunrise

 

Sacred Sounds 2003

Selected Articles and Scores:

 

1. Joseph. Dyer, 'Prolegomena to a History of Music and Liturgy at Rome in the Middle Ages', Essays on Medieval Music in honor of David G. Hughes, Harvard, 1995, 87-115

 

2. Neil Moran, ‘Byzantine Castrati’, Plainsong and Medieval Music 11 (2002): 99-112.

 

3. Kenneth Levy, ‘A new look at Old Roman Chant II’ Early Music History 20 (2001) 173-197.

 

4. Peter Jeffrey, ‘Rome and Jerusalem: from Oral Tradition to written repertory in two ancient liturgical centers’, , Essays on Medieval Music in honor of David G. Hughes, Harvard, 1995, 207-248.

 

5. Peter Jeffrey, ‘The lost chant tradition of early christian Jerusalem’, Early Music History 11 (1992), 151-190.

 

6. Oliver Strunk, Source readings in music history, New York: Norton, 1950, pp 117-125

 

7. Joan Naughton, ‘Books for a Dominican Nuns’ choir: illustrated liturgical manuscripts at St Luis de Poissy, c. 1330-1350’ in The Art of the Book ed. Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir, Exeter UP, 1998, pp. 67-110.

 

8.  Anne Walters Robertson, Guillaume Machaut at Reims: Context and meaning in his musical works, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2002.  Chapter 9: ‘Machaut;s Mass of Our Lady  and composer remembrance through music’, pp. 257-275.

 

9. Pamela F. Starr, ‘Rome as the centre of the universe: Papal grace and music patronage’, Early Music History 11 (1992) 223-262.

 

10. Christian Thomas Leitmeir, ‘Catholic Music in the diocese of Augsburg c. 1600’, Early Music History 21 (2002), 117-173.

 

11. John Stinson, ‘The Rimini Antiphonal: Palimpsest Music and Renaissance Liturgical Practice’, in Reading texts and images, ed. Bernard J. Muir, Exeter, 2002, pp. 57-92.

 

12. John Wesley, The Power of Music (1779); repr. in The Methodist Hymn Book (1933)

 

13. Robert Hayburn, Papal legislation on music, Collegeville, 1979, chapters 7-10