1st Edition

The Aquitanian Kyrie Repertory of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries

By Richard Crocker, David Bjork Copyright 2003
404 Pages
by Routledge

This book was published in 2003. One of the most important but least studied of medieval chant repertories is that of the Kyrie. With their Latin texts, Kyrie melodies represented musical ambitions manifested alongside of and subsequent to Gregorian chant - ambitions which achieved stylistic and formal distinction. This study illuminates those features of the early Kyrie that give it its... Read more

Clemens rector aeterne; Some other early D-final Kyries; Rex magne domine; Other early E-final Kyries; The Christe supplices Mel. 55; Some other early G-final Kyries; Eleventh-century additions to the Aquitanian Kyrie repertory; Endnotes for chapters 1-8; Inventories of the Aquitanian sources; Concordances for the Aquitanian Kyrie repertory.

Biography

Richard Crocker, David Bjork