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During the eleventh century the Aquitanian monastery of St . Yrieix , located forty kilometers south of Limoges , acquired a new gradual , a manuscript containing the liturgical Mass chants for the year . The Gradual of St . Yrieix , now at the Paris Bibliothèque Nationale (Pa903 ) , includes both text and music , redacted with the musical notation typical of the region of Aquitaine .
The objective of this research is to analyze Pa903 as a document of liturgical musical practice and as a participant in the historical events of its region and time . While the Gregorian chant repertory dominates the gradual , this dissertation addresses the neo -Gregorian chants of Pa903 , composed in the period following the dissemination of Gregorian chant throughout Europe . These neo -Gregorian chants were open to the influence of the contemporary regional musical style and cultural traditions surrounding St . Yrieix .
Chapter II reviews the backdrop of historical events surrounding Pa903 , focusing on the reform and expansion at St . Yrieix and its transition from a monastery to a chapter of canons . The musical and liturgical characteristics of Pa903 (Chapter III ) show that St .
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Yrieix favored its senior patron St . Martin of Tours and St . Aredius (its patron saint ) above St . Martial of Limoges (a powerful neighbor ) and presented in the gradual a community of saints with strong regional influence .
Chapters IV and V analyze the concordances of antiphons , tropes , prosulas , prosas , and neo -Gregorian Mass chants of Pa903 with those of the Aquitanian graduals and other sources throughout Europe . The tropes of the Proper and Ordinary , the complete repertory of prosulas and prosas , and the neo -Gregorian Mass chants of Pa903 are collected together here for the first time outside of Pa903 . The neo -Gregorian chants are found in the sanctoral , temporal , and the ritual Masses and include a group of chants that reflects textual and musical elements of the prior Gallican tradition . The chant repertory of the gradual also presents a subgroup of forty -nine antiphons , prosas , prosulas , and neo -Gregorian Mass chants found only in Pa903 , documented here with musical examples . |
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