Daniel J. DiCenso & Rebecca Maloy 
Chant, Liturgy, and the Inheritance of Rome 
Essays in Honour of Joseph Dyer

The influence of Rome on medieval plainsong and liturgy explored in depth.


Containing substantial new studies in music, liturgy, history, art history, and palaeography from established and emerging scholars, this volume takes a cross-disciplinary approach to one of the most celebrated and vexing questions about plainsong and liturgy in the Middle Ages: how to understand the influence of Rome? Some essays address this question directly, examining Roman sources, Roman liturgy, or Roman practice, whilst others consider the sway of Rome more indirectly, by looking later sources, received practices, or emerging traditions that owe a foundational debt to Rome.


Daniel J. Di Censo is Assistant Professor of Music at the College of the Holy Cross; Rebecca Maloy is Professor of Musicology at the University of Colorado Boulder.


Contributors: Charles M. Atkinson, Rebecca A. Baltzer, James Borders, Susan Boynton, Catherine Carver, Daniel J. Di Censo, David Ganz, Barbara Haggh-Huglo, David Hiley, Emma Hornby, Thomas Forrest Kelly, William Mahrt, Charles B. Mc Clendon, Luisa Nardini, Edward Nowacki , Christopher Page, Susan Rankin, John F. Romano, Mary E. Wolinski

Table of Content

Doxa en ipsistis Theo: Its Textual and Melodic Tradition in the ‘Missa graeca’ – Charles M Atkinson

The Changing Roles of Old Saint Peter’s in Late Antique and Early Medieval Rome – Charles Mc Clendon

The Archdeacon, Power, and Liturgy before 1000 – John Romano

The Earliest Antiphons of the Roman Office – Edward Nowacki

The Paschal Vigil in Medieval Rome – Thomas Kelly

As the Bells Toll: Parish Proximity in Medieval Rome – Catherine Carver Mc Currach

The Moment of Scrutiny in the
Missale Gallicanum Vetus and the Instruction of Catechumens in Merovingian and Carolingian Francia – David Ganz

Melodic Style and the Transmission History of the Beneventan Easter Vigil Canticles – Emma Hornby

Fitting New Texts into Old Melodies: The Diffusion and Technique of Prosulas for Tracts and Graduals – Luisa Nardini

Singing the Psalter in the Early Middle Ages – Susan K Rankin

The Tonality of the Numerical Offices in Cambrai, Médiathèque municipale, MS 38 – Barbara Haggh-Huglo

Revisiting the
Admonitio generalis – Daniel J. Di Censo

An Overlooked Source of the
Pontifical romain du XIIe siècle and its Chants: Lyon, Bibliothèque des Facultés catholiques, MS Réserve 1/0011 [olim MS 2] – James Borders

Music and the Cluniac Vision of History in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 17716 – Susan Boynton

To Chant in a Vale of Tears –

Melodic Trope as Modal Rhetoric – William Mahrt

Proper Office Chants for St George in South German Manuscripts – David Hiley

Notre-Dame and the Challenge of the Sainte-Chapelle in Thirteenth-Century Paris – Rebecca Baltzer

Music for the Confraternity of St James in Paris – Mary Wolinski

Publications by Joseph Dyer

About the author

EDWARD NOWACKI is Professor Emeritus of musicology at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati.