The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages

Margot E. Fassler is Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Musicology and Director of the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University. Rebecca A. Baltzer is Professor of Musicology at the University of Texas, Austin.

• Lila Collamore: Prelude: Charting the Divine OfficePart I. A Methodological Introduction1: Margot E. Fassler: Sermons, Sacramentaries, and Early Sources for the Office in the Latin West: The Example of Advent2: László Dobszay: Reading an Office BookPart II. The Pre-Carolingian Office3: James W. McKinnon: The Origins of the Western Office4: Joseph Dyer: Observations on the Divine Office in the Rule of the Master5: Peter Jeffery: Eastern and Western Elements in the Irish Monastic Prayer of the HoursPart III. Manuscript Studies6: Ritva Jacobsson: The Antiphoner of Compiègne, Paris, BNF lat. 174367: James Grier: The Divine Office at St. Martial in the Early Eleventh Century: Paris, BN lat. 10858: Michael Huglo: The Cluniac Processional of Solesmes, Bibliothèque de l'Abbaye9: Susan Rankin: Taking the Rough with the Smooth: Melodic Versions and Manuscript StatusPart IV. Regional Developments: Carolingian Period to the Later Middle Ages10: Hartmut Möller: Office Compositions from St. Gall: Saints Gallus and Othmar11: Terence Bailey: The Development and Chronology of the Ambrosian Sanctorale: The Evidence of the Antiphon Texts12: Gunilla Björkvall and Andreas Haug: Performing Latin Verse: Text and Music in Early Medieval Versified Offices13: Anne Walters Robertson: From Office to Mass: The Antiphons of Vespers and Lauds and the Antiphons before the Gospel in Northern France14: Wulf Arlt: The Office for the Feast of the Circumcision from Le Puy15: Craig Wright: The Palm Sunday Processional in Medieval Chartres16: Barbara Haggh: Nonconformity in the Use of Cambrai Cathedral: Guillaume Du Fay's FoundationsPart V. Hagiography17: Gunilla Iversen: Transforming a Viking into a Saint: The Divine Office of St. Olav18: Janka Szendrei: On the Prose Historia of St. Augustine19: David Hiley: The Historia of St. Julian of Le Mans by Létald of Micy: Some Comments and Questions about a North French Office of the Early Eleventh Century20: Rebecca A. Baltzer: The Little Office of the Virgin and Mary's Role at Paris21: James John Boyce: The Carmelite Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin: A Study in Musical AdaptationPart VI. The Office and Computers22: Andrew Hughes: Large Projects and Small Resources: Late Medieval Liturgical Offices23: Lora Matthews & Paul Merkley: CANTUS and TonariesLila Collamore: Bibliography of Writings by Ruth Steiner

This collection underlines the variety and creativity of the Western Office in the Middle Ages, and will establish itself as indispensable for those studying this period, and the overall development of the Divine Office. The editors and publishers should be congratulated on what is a distinguished and informative work