From Age to Age: How Christians Have Celebrated the Eucharist by Edward Foley

Author:Edward Foley [Foley, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2008-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

MUSIC

The musical landscape of late medieval Eucharist was a diverse and paradoxical state of affairs. On the one hand, scholas and choirs had assumed a new prominence in the eucharistic liturgy, especially in the cathedrals and other large urban churches. As far as musical composition for these elite musicians, this was an unusually fertile period of development for church music. On the other hand, the growing phenomenon of private Mass indicates that very frequently Eucharist was celebrated without music. As for the faithful, their musical role in the public celebration of the Eucharist clearly declined, but their voices could not be completely silenced. In order to chart this complex situation we will consider two basic musical trends of the time: the addition of more than one line of music during a piece, and the textual changes that accompanied this musical development. In light of those two changes, largely effecting the music of scholas and choirs, we will then consider how and when the voice of the congregation was heard.

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