Music in Early Franciscan Thought: 9

277 Pages·2013·8.245 MB·English

by  Peter V. Loewen

Music in Early Franciscan Thought
The Medieval Franciscans
General Editor
Steven J. McMichael
University of St. Thomas
VOLUME 9
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Music in Early Franciscan
Thought
By
Peter V. Loewen
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2013
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 Music in early Franciscan thought / by Peter V. Loewen.
  pages cm. -- (The Medieval Franciscans ; volume 9)
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ...................................................................................................xi
Abbreviations ..........................................................................................................xiii
Introduction ................................................................................................................1
    I. Music and Preaching in the Life of St. Francis of Assisi .......................17
Hagiographical Sources ............................................................................19
Music in the Life of a Wanton Youth .....................................................25
Fiddle Sticks, Dancing for Joy, and the Heavenly Cithara ...............28
Music and Preaching in the Rule of St. Francis ..................................35
The Nativity Play and Mass at Greccio .................................................42
Francis and his Joculatores Domini ........................................................56
   II.  Music and the Narrative of Penance in Lotario dei Segni’s
De missarum mysteriis ...................................................................................61
Pope Innocent III (Lotario dei Conti di Segni) ...................................62
De missarum mysteriis ...............................................................................64
Prologue ........................................................................................................68
Epistle, Gradual, Alleluia, and Gospel ..................................................70
The Epistle ....................................................................................................70
The Gradual .................................................................................................70
The Alleluia ..................................................................................................75
The Gospel ...................................................................................................80
Conclusion ...................................................................................................81
III.  William of Middleton’s Opusculum super missam:
Musical Instruction for Simple Priests and Clerics ...............................83
De opusculum super missam ....................................................................85
The Epistle ....................................................................................................87
The Gradual .................................................................................................87
The Alleluia ..................................................................................................89
The Gospel ...................................................................................................91
Conclusion ...................................................................................................92
viii contents
      IV.  David von Ausburg: Music for the Outer and Inner Human ..............93
Musical Comportment .............................................................................94
Vocal Prayer .................................................................................................96
Scribal Reception of De exterioris et interioris
 hominis compositione ...........................................................................99
De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione
 in Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, cod. II.1.2o 5 ....................101
De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione in Munich,
 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 16072 .....................................103
Conclusion .................................................................................................113
       V.  Robert Grosseteste on Music, Science,
and the Cura animarum .............................................................................115
De artibus liberalibus and Templum Dei .............................................117
Septenary Virtue .......................................................................................119
Music as Motion .......................................................................................121
The Ministry of Music ............................................................................123
Conclusion .................................................................................................126
   VI. Roger Bacon on the Science of Music and Preaching ........................129
Scholarship and Controversy ................................................................131
The Opus maius ........................................................................................136
Grammar and Logic Through the Measurement of Music ...........137
Bodily Motion, and Music as a Universal Science ..........................140
Music and Moral Philosophy ................................................................143
The Opus Tertium .....................................................................................145
Musica Mundana .....................................................................................146
Music and Bodily Motion ......................................................................147
Singing and Preaching ............................................................................149
“The Modus of All Church Music was Established
 as Enharmonic” ...................................................................................151
Music and Preaching...............................................................................158
Berthold von Regensburg’s Preaching ................................................163
Conclusion .................................................................................................164
VII.  Bartholomaeus Anglicus on Music and Preaching
in De proprietatibus rerum.........................................................................167
Sensual Perception of Music in De proprietatibus rerum ..............177
Concord in Music and Relationships .................................................179
Vocal Timbre and the Voice of the Preacher ....................................184
contents ix
Concord in Music and Among Religious ........................................190
Universal Concord and the Music of Preaching...........................193
Conclusion ..............................................................................................195
VIII. T he Ars musica of Juan Gil de Zamora: Musical Expression
and Instruments of the Reconquista ....................................................197
Historia naturalis, Dictaminis Epithalamium,
 and Ars musica .................................................................................200
Who Commissioned Ars musica? .....................................................201
St. Cecilia, the Music of the Bees, and Preaching
 in Historia naturalis .........................................................................204
Ars musica as a Primer for Singing Chant ......................................206
Ars musica ...............................................................................................208
The Ethos of the Church Modes .......................................................211
The Ethos of Mode Five ......................................................................214
“Musicalia instrumenta inventa fuerunt secundum
 diversitatem temporum a diversis” .............................................217
Conclusion ..............................................................................................230
Conclusion ..............................................................................................................233
Bibliography ...........................................................................................................243
Index .........................................................................................................................257