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From Easter to St Catherine of Alexandria. The Metamorphosis of a Sequence

Kovács, Andrea (2015) From Easter to St Catherine of Alexandria. The Metamorphosis of a Sequence. Studia Musicologica, 56 (2-3). pp. 189-199. ISSN 1788-6244

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Abstract

Manuscripts and printed editions of Hungarian provenance contain 288 sequences, out of which 237 have their own music. Particular dioceses and ecclesiastical institutions could decide freely which item they would sing on a given feast. The Ascension sequence Sursum sonet laudis melos, besides being present in the Futaki Gradual, is found only in three manuscripts of Zagreb provenance and in the missal of that diocese printed in 1511. The item is a shortened version in seven verses of a longer, eleven-verse original, written before 1305 by an unknown author and occurring very rarely in sources outside Hungary. In its present shortened form, it is only preserved in the liturgical books of the Hungarian use. The surviving sources show that this variant of the text is the result of a deliberate recrafting that occurred in Zagreb in the first part of the 14th century.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: M Music and Books on Music / zene, szövegkönyvek, kották > M1 Music / zene
M Music and Books on Music / zene, szövegkönyvek, kották > M1 Music / zene > M10 Theory and philosophy of music / zeneelmélet, muzikológia
Depositing User: xDóra xO'Neill
Date Deposited: 20 Jul 2016 12:02
Last Modified: 30 Jun 2017 23:23
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/37921

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