Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris, Second Edition - Softcover

Fassler, Margot E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0268028893 ISBN 13: 9780268028893

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011

Synopsis

Margot E. Fassler’s richly documented history―winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America―demonstrates how the Augustinians of St. Victor, Paris, used an art of memory to build sonic models of the church. This musical art developed over time, inspired by the religious ideals of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor and their understandings of image and the spiritual journey. Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris demonstrates the centrality of sequences to western medieval Christian liturgical and artistic experience, and to our understanding of change and continuity in medieval culture. Fassler examines the figure of Adam of St. Victor and the possible layers within the repertories created at various churches in Paris, probes the ways the Victorine sequences worked musically and exegetically, and situates this repertory within the intellectual and spiritual ideals of the Augustinian canons regular, especially those of the Abbey of St. Victor.

Originally published in hardover in 1993, this paperback edition includes a new introduction by Fassler, in which she reviews the state of scholarship on late sequences since the original publication of Gothic Song. Her notes to the introduction provide the bibliography necessary for situating the Victorine sequences, and the late sequences in general, in contemporary thought.

About this title

Book Description:

This is the first study of how a particular genre of liturgical texts and music, the Victorine sequences, were first written in great numbers during the twelfth-century.

About the Author:

Margot E. Fassler is the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0268028893
• ISBN 13: 9780268028893
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 487