Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c.800–1650

For more than a millenium, singers in churches, monasteries, and private chapels across Europe have closed their worship with the joyful musical exclamation Benedicamus Domino (‘Let us Bless the Lord’). This moment has sounded in song many times a day: at the end of the Mass, the Office hours, outsi...

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description For more than a millenium, singers in churches, monasteries, and private chapels across Europe have closed their worship with the joyful musical exclamation Benedicamus Domino (‘Let us Bless the Lord’). This moment has sounded in song many times a day: at the end of the Mass, the Office hours, outside the church walls in celebratory processions, as well as in informal sacred, devotional, and festive contexts. Benedicamus Domino was uniquely associated with an unprecedented amount of creative freedom in the sacred rituals of the Christian West: plainchant melodies could be adopted at will from other parts of the liturgy, and this moment inspired a proliferation of poetic and polyphonic elaborations from the eleventh century on. This collection of essays brings together interdisciplinary contributions from eighteen scholars, illuminating the wide range of ritual, musical, poetic, manuscript, and generic contexts for the Benedicamus Domino versicle in the period c.800­–1650. Individual chapters engage with the evidence of liturgical commentaries and Patristic texts, Ordines, and hagiographies. They present and analyse musical and textual embellishments of the Benedicamus Domino, as well as their written traces and material contexts, with several sources discovered or discussed in detail here for the first time. Encompassing a wide geographical and generic scope, this volume reveals unsuspected continuities and contrasts in the history of the Benedicamus Domino versicle in medieval and early modern Europe.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1510032025-02-10T17:05:03Z Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c.800–1650 Bradley, Catherine A. Musicology: Medieval & Renaissance period (up to c. 1600) Liturgy, sacraments & worship thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music and musicology For more than a millenium, singers in churches, monasteries, and private chapels across Europe have closed their worship with the joyful musical exclamation Benedicamus Domino (‘Let us Bless the Lord’). This moment has sounded in song many times a day: at the end of the Mass, the Office hours, outside the church walls in celebratory processions, as well as in informal sacred, devotional, and festive contexts. Benedicamus Domino was uniquely associated with an unprecedented amount of creative freedom in the sacred rituals of the Christian West: plainchant melodies could be adopted at will from other parts of the liturgy, and this moment inspired a proliferation of poetic and polyphonic elaborations from the eleventh century on. This collection of essays brings together interdisciplinary contributions from eighteen scholars, illuminating the wide range of ritual, musical, poetic, manuscript, and generic contexts for the Benedicamus Domino versicle in the period c.800­–1650. Individual chapters engage with the evidence of liturgical commentaries and Patristic texts, Ordines, and hagiographies. They present and analyse musical and textual embellishments of the Benedicamus Domino, as well as their written traces and material contexts, with several sources discovered or discussed in detail here for the first time. Encompassing a wide geographical and generic scope, this volume reveals unsuspected continuities and contrasts in the history of the Benedicamus Domino versicle in medieval and early modern Europe. 2025-02-10T17:05:02Z 2025-02-10T17:05:02Z 2024 book ONIX_20250210_9782503614861_76 9782503614861 9782503614878 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151003 eng Epitome musical image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503614861-1 https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.EM-EB.5.142505 Brepols Brepols 10.1484/M.EM-EB.5.142505 10.1484/M.EM-EB.5.142505 337417f5-5e42-49d3-8b32-3867e1572190 9782503614861 9782503614878 Brepols 398 Turnhout open access
spellingShingle Musicology: Medieval & Renaissance period (up to c. 1600)
Liturgy, sacraments & worship
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Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c.800–1650
title Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c.800–1650
title_full Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c.800–1650
title_fullStr Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c.800–1650
title_full_unstemmed Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c.800–1650
title_short Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c.800–1650
title_sort music and liturgy for the benedicamus domino c 800 1650
topic Musicology: Medieval & Renaissance period (up to c. 1600)
Liturgy, sacraments & worship
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music and musicology
topic_facet Musicology: Medieval & Renaissance period (up to c. 1600)
Liturgy, sacraments & worship
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music and musicology
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