Ordinary Chants in Portuguese Fragments: Kyrie and Sanctus Tropes

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The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study of four fragments and two guard leaves sets identified during the research being made in the context of two
projects at CESEM, NOVA University of Lisbon: Text and Voices lost and found.
Recovering, reconstituting, and recreating musical fragments (c.1100-c.1600) (PI: João
Pedro d’Alvarenga) and The Musical Manuscripts from the Monastery of Belém (PI:
Océane Boudeau).
These sources, kept in different Portuguese archives and in the Free Library of
Philadelphia, are dated between the end of the fifteenth century and the mid-sixteenth
century and contain some tropes for both the Kyrie and the Sanctus.
In Portugal, to date, the presence of tropes for these two chants have been mostly found in books of the Hieronymite tradition. The fragments were analytically compared with identified Portuguese books of known liturgical traditions, such as P-Ln L.C. 243, P-Ln L.C. 265, and P-Evad Mus. Perg. Lit. Ms. n.o 70 from the Hieronymite tradition, and with one book from the Augustinian Canons Regular of Coimbra (P-Cug MM 37), which contains two Kyrie tropes.
This research sheds new light on these hitherto neglected fragments and allows a better comprehension of the melodies associated with specific liturgical traditions, namely the Hieronymite tradition.
Period21 Jul 2023
Event titleLost & Found: Traces of Early Music. An International Colloquium on Fragmentology.
Event typeConference
LocationCascais, PortugalShow on map