Music in Early Franciscan Thought

Peter V. Loewen, Ph.D. (2000) is Associate Professor of Musicology at Rice University. He has published several articles concerning music, drama, and the Franciscans, including “Portrayals of the Vita Christi in the Medieval German Marienklage: Signs of Franciscan Exegesis and Rhetoric in Drama and Music” (Comparative Drama, 2008).

• List of Illustrations … xiAbbreviations … xiiiIntroduction … 1 I. Music and Preaching in the Life of St. Francis of Assisi … 17Hagiographical Sources … 19Music in the Life of a Wanton Youth … 25Fiddle Sticks, Dancing for Joy, and the Heavenly Cithara … 28Music and Preaching in the Rule of St. Francis … 35The Nativity Play and Mass at Greccio … 42Francis and his Joculatores Domini … 56 II. Music and the Narrative of Penance in Lotario dei Segni’s De missarum mysteriis … 61Pope Innocent III (Lotario dei Conti di Segni) … 62De missarum mysteriis … 64Prologue … 68Epistle, Gradual, Alleluia, and Gospel … 70The Epistle … 70The Gradual … 70The Alleluia … 75The Gospel … 80Conclusion … 81III. William of Middleton’s Opusculum super missam: Musical Instruction for Simple Priests and Clerics … 83De opusculum super missam … 85The Epistle … 87The Gradual … 87The Alleluia … 89The Gospel … 91Conclusion … 92IV. 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 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 … 184Concord in Music and Among Religious … 190Universal Concord and the Music of Preaching … 193Conclusion … 195VIII. The Ars musica of Juan Gil de Zamora: Musical Expression and Instruments of the Reconquista … 197 Historia naturalis, Dictaminis Epithalamium, and Ars musica … 200Who Commissioned Ars musica? … 201 St. Cecilia, the Music of the Bees, and Preaching in Historia naturalis … 204Ars musica as a Primer for Singing Chant … 206Ars musica … 208The Ethos of the Church Modes … 211The Ethos of Mode Five … 214 “Musicalia instrumenta inventa fuerunt secundum diversitatem temporum a diversis” … 217Conclusion … 230Conclusion … 233Bibliography … 243Index … 257

"...An important addition to medieval musicological research. Summing Up: Recommended."B. L. Eden (Valparaiso University), CHOICE, November 2013