O processional português de Chicago

Authors

  • Michel Huglo
  • Manuel Pedro Ferreira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.57885/rpmns.251

Abstract

A processional with the call number “Case MS 155” in the Newberry Library in Chicago was, at the time of its purchase in 1995, believed to be a 13th-century Spanish manuscript. However, based on its notation and rubrics, the present paper, identifies this manuscript as a 14th-century Portuguese Processional (restricted to the feasts of the Temporale). Additions made at the end of the volume during the 16th-century indicate that it was still used in Portugal at that time. In this paper, a detailed, explanatory description of its contents is accompanied by the attempt to identify its origin more precisely. The church which the source was written for was dedicated to the Virgin and local devotion to Saint James is also mentioned. The data collected so far point to a church whose liturgy was modelled on the use of Lisbon — a temple in the Lisbon diocese, or belonging to the Order of Santiago — although at this stage one can not rule out alternative hypotheses.

Author Biographies

Michel Huglo

MICHEL HUGLO is Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, corresponding member of the American Musicological Society (1997), doctor honoris causa of the University of Chicago and member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1991). After studying philosophy and theology at the Abbey of Saint-Pierre in Solesmes (1941-47), and working there on the Graduel critique: Les sources and Paléographie musicale (1949-1960), he directed research at the CNRS and taught in Paris (IPHE-Sorbonne) and Brussels (Université libre). He was also Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna (Spring 1990), Visiting Mellon Professor at the Institute for Historical Study of Princeton University (1990-91), and Visiting Professor at New York University (Spring 1993). He was awarded his Ph.D. at the Univ. Paris IV (Sorbonne) in 1969 and his doctorat d'État at the Univ. Paris X in 1981. In 1987 he received the silver medal for research from the CNRS. He is author of Les tonaires, of over 200 articles on medieval chant, theory, and early organum, and of a catalogue of nearly 1200 manuscript processionals (RISM B XIV 1- 2). Bibliography (1949-1992) in W. Arlt/ G. Björkvall, Recherches nouvelles sur les tropes liturgiques (Stockholm 1993), 449-62. Summary bibliographies are also in the revised New Grove Dictionary and new MGG.

Manuel Pedro Ferreira

MANUEL PEDRO FERREIRA is Associate Professor at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Executive Director of CESEM, a FCSH-based research unit dedicated to the study of Music. He obtained his Ph.D at Princeton University with a dissertation on the chant tradition of Cluny. He has specialized in medieval music and has published extensively on chant, Iberian cantigas and early monodic and polyphonic repertoires in France. He has written, edited and co-edited eight books, and has been personally involved in four independently-funded research projects. He has also been active as a composer, music critic and director of the ensemble Vozes Alfonsinas, which, since 1995, has recorded 6 CDs and has performed in Portugal, Italy, Holland and the US.

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Published

2014-12-20

How to Cite

Huglo, M., & Ferreira, M. P. (2014). O processional português de Chicago. Portuguese Journal of Musicology, 55–78. https://doi.org/10.57885/rpmns.251

Issue

Vol 14/15 (2004-2005)

Section

Articles (peer-reviewed)