Music in Early Franciscan Thought

by Peter Loewen

Overview

Music in Early Franciscan Thought is an interdisciplinary study exploring the broad relevance of music in Franciscan hagiography, art, theology, philosophy, and preaching between the founding of the Order in 1210 and 1300—a period covering their rapid ascendancy in medieval society as an Order of clerics. The book covers representations of music in visual and literary hagiography, the inspiration of Pope Innocent III, and the formative writings of William of Middleton and David von Augsburg. Later chapters examine the science and practice of music and its relevance to the ministry of preaching through the writings of Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, and Juan Gil de Zamora.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004248175
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/08/2013
Series:	Medieval Franciscans Series , #9
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations … xi
Abbreviations … xiii

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

Conclusion … 233

Bibliography … 243
Index … 257

Editorial Reviews

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

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