Understanding the Old Hispanic Office

Emma Hornby is Professor of Music at the University of Bristol. As Principal Investigator, she directed the ERC-funded Old Hispanic Office research project that formed the basis of this book. Kati Ihnat is an Assistant Professor of History at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, specialising in the religious cultures of the Middle Ages. Rebecca Maloy is professor of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of three monographs, most recently Songs of Sacrifice, on the Old Hispanic offertory. Raquel Rojo Carrillo is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Music. Her research focuses on medieval Iberian plainchant.

• 1. The Old Hispanic office: evidence and silence Kati Ihnat; 2. The liturgical year in the Old Hispanic rite Raquel Rojo Carrillo and Emma Hornby; 3. Old Hispanic liturgical manuscripts Emma Hornby and Raquel Rojo Carrillo; 4. Old Hispanic genres: chants, prayers and readings Emma Hornby and Raquel Rojo Carrillo; 5. The Old Hispanic liturgical day Emma Hornby and Raquel Rojo Carrillo; 6. Old Hispanic musical notation: its characteristics and an analytical methodology Emma Hornby, Rebecca Maloy and Raquel Rojo Carrillo; 7. Melodic language in Old Hispanic chant: illustrating an analytical methodology Emma Hornby and Rebecca Maloy; 8. Text, melody and theology in the Old Hispanic Marian office Kati Ihnat and Rebecca Maloy.

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