Musical notation

Abstract

This is a late sixteenth-century Spanish liturgical psalter. It contains the Psalms of the Sunday Office of Matins through None with antiphons and responses throughout the year. There is musical notation for the Te Deum and for the Hymns, antiphons, and responses at Prime and Terce.

Abstract Table of contents: Three unidentified capitula lacking first initial and rubrication; Three capitula, one each for: prime at feasts during Advent, Quadragesima, Sundays, and the Vigil of the Nativity; feasts outside of Advent and Quadragesima; and private feasts; Prayers and antiphons for Prime for these feasts; a capitulum for other feasts during the week; a capitulum for miscellaneous Sundays, followed by more prayers and antiphons; Psalms and antiphons for Prime, Monday through Saturday;...

Abstract

This is a German missal from about the fourteenth century, which includes a Cantus; the Blessing of the Paschal Candle with the Litany; the Blessing of the Candle; the Order for the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Blessing of the Candles; the Order for the Blessing of the Branches on Palm Sunday; and the Blessing of Salt and Water with the Litany.

Abstract Sisters of the kings of France, the author Christine de Pizan, and Balzac’s droll fictitious heroines – these are among the residents of the prestigious royal foundation of the Dominican nuns at Poissy. Every manuscript that becomes known from Poissy is worthy of special note not just because of the fame of the abbey but also because of the contribution of its women to late medieval liturgical music. Whereas Processionals survive in increasingly large numbers from Poissy, Sequentiaries, such...