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Notated Music [O'Hara hymnary]

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Title

  • [O'Hara hymnary]

Names

  • Catholic Church

Created / Published

  • [1460-1499?]

Contents

  • [9 different tones for the invitatory psalm] -- [Office hymns limited to the hymns for Matins and Lauds : sanctoral covers selectively entire liturgical year] -- [Additions in later hands].

Headings

  • -  Psalms (Music)--95th Psalm
  • -  Hymns, Latin--15th century
  • -  Divine office (Music)
  • -  Visitation Festival music
  • -  Feast of the Transfiguration music
  • -  Ascension Day music
  • -  Pentecost Festival music
  • -  Corpus Christi Festival music
  • -  Candlemas music

Notes

  • -  Collection of Office hymns for Matins and Lauds.
  • -  Latin words.
  • -  Rubricated in red; text in round Gothic lettering.
  • -  Five-line staves in red ink, orange ink on f. 1rv, five staves per page, with F or C clefs.
  • -  Square black neumes.
  • -  Initials are similar to those in the Cantorales made in Toledo, Spain in the time of the reforms of Cardinal Cisneros. Script suggests Toledo connections as well.
  • -  Title from: Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance ms. bks.
  • -  Spain or Southern France?, last 3rd of the 15th century; 1st quarter of the 16th century.
  • -  Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance ms. bks., MS 40, p. 253-258.
  • -  Gift; Mrs. Eliot O'Hara ; June 4, 1959.

Medium

  • 1 ms. score (120 [i.e., 92] leaves) ; 51 x 36 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • M2147 XVI M2

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008562446

Online Format

  • image

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The contents of the Library of Congress 10th-16th Century Liturgical Chants Collection are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

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