Table of Contents

Lila Collamore: Prelude: Charting the Divine Office
Part I. A Methodological Introduction
1: Margot E. Fassler: Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West: The Example of Advent
2: László Dobszay: Reading an Office Book
Part II. The Pre-Carolingian Office
3: James W. McKinnon: The Origins of the Western Office
4: Joseph Dyer: Observations on the Divine Office in the Rule of the Master
5: Peter Jeffery: Eastern and Western Elements in the Irish Monastic Prayer of the Hours
Part III. Manuscript Studies
6: Ritva Jacobsson: The Antiphoner of Compiègne, Paris, BNF lat. 17436
7: James Grier: The Divine Office at St. Martial in the Early Eleventh Century: Paris, BN lat. 1085
8: Michael Huglo: The Cluniac Processional of Solesmes, Bibliothèque de l'Abbaye
9: Susan Rankin: Taking the Rough with the Smooth: Melodic Versions and Manuscript Status
Part IV. Regional Developments: Carolingian Period to the Later Middle Ages
10: Hartmut Möller: Office Compositions from St. Gall: Saints Gallus and Othmar
11: Terence Bailey: The Development and Chronology of the Ambrosian Sanctorale: The Evidence of the Antiphon Texts
12: Gunilla Björkvall and Andreas Haug: Performing Latin Verse: Text and Music in Early Medieval Versified Offices
13: Anne Walters Robertson: From Office to Mass: The Antiphons of Vespers and Lauds and the Antiphons before the Gospel in Northern France
14: Wulf Arlt: The Office for the Feast of the Circumcision from Le Puy
15: Craig Wright: The Palm Sunday Processional in Medieval Chartres
16: Barbara Haggh: Nonconformity in the Use of Cambrai Cathedral: Guillaume Du Fay's Foundations
Part V. Hagiography
17: Gunilla Iversen: Transforming a Viking into a Saint: The Divine Office of St. Olav
18: Janka Szendrei: On the Prose Historia of St. Augustine
19: David Hiley: The Historia of St. Julian of Le Mans by Létald of Micy: Some Comments and Questions about a North French Office of the Early Eleventh Century
20: Rebecca A. Baltzer: The Little Office of the Virgin and Mary's Role at Paris
21: James John Boyce: The Carmelite Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin: A Study in Musical Adaptation
Part VI. The Office and Computers
22: Andrew Hughes: Large Projects and Small Resources: Late Medieval Liturgical Offices
23: Lora Matthews & Paul Merkley: CANTUS and Tonaries
Lila Collamore: Bibliography of Writings by Ruth Steiner

About the Author

Margot E. Fassler is Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Musicology and Director of the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University.

Rebecca A. Baltzer is Professor of Musicology at the University of Texas, Austin.

Reviews

This collection underlines the variety and creativity of the Western Office in the Middle Ages, and will establish itself as indispensable for those studying this period, and the overall development of the Divine Office. The editors and publishers should be congratulated on what is a distinguished and informative work Journal of Theological Studies Peter Jeffery offers a ground-breaking essay, tracing Eastern and Western elements in the Irish monastic Hours, with particular scrutiny of the Bangor Antiphoner Journal of Theological Studies Many key specialists have contributed to this remarkable volume ... Many interesting and surprising areas are covered ... there is much here of interest for a diverse range of readers Early Music Today This volume attests the vitality of current chant scholarship Early Music Today The editors have done their job well: the book is beautifully presented, carefully ordered, scrupulously edited and generously indexed Early Music The greatest asset of this volume is that a wide range of topics are covered without sacrificing detailed analysis in particular areas Early Music