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Eastman Studies in Music Ser.: Paradise of Priests : Singing the Civic and Episcopal Hagiography of Medieval Li Ge by Catherine Saucier (2014, Hardcover)

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A Paradise of Priests: Singing the Civic and Episcopal Hagiography of Medieval Liège (Eastman Studies in Music) by Saucier, Catherine [Hardcover]

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PublisherUniversity of Rochester Medical Press

ISBN-101580464807

ISBN-139781580464802

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Number of Pages316 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameParadise of Priests : Singing the Civic and Episcopal Hagiography of Medieval Li Ge

Publication Year2014

SubjectChristianity / Saints & Sainthood, Christianity / History, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Religious / Christian, Ethnic

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMusic, Religion, Political Science

AuthorCatherine Saucier

SeriesEastman Studies in Music Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight23.2 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.3 in

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LCCN2013-043813

ReviewsSaucier's A Paradise of Priests represents a substantial achievement in a number of fields, including medieval and Renaissance musicology, urban history, and church history. The book's readable style will make it accessible to students as well as to scholars and teachers. A seamless and compelling narrative., The culmination of more than a decade of careful archival and analytical work about the music and culture of Li ge (in modern Belgium). Demonstrates how music, hagiography, and civic identity were intimately intertwined in Li ge during the late Middle Ages. A particularly useful volume because of the music transcriptions and translations of chant texts, many of which are not available in the Cantus Index. Balances thorough archival work with analysis of music and text., Weaves a compelling narrative centred on the lives of Li ge's founder-bishops as celebrated in the hagiography, art, rituals and music made, enacted and re-enacted by the medieval clerical population of Li ge. An expert examination of an impressively vast array of sources -- including archival, liturgical, artistic and hagiographic. A must-read for anyone interested in how one might locate the fashioning of a city's image in the extant remains of story, art, music and ritual., An impeccably organized and elegantly crafted discussion of the previously under-appreciated liturgical materials of medieval Li ge, and an enlightening study of the interrelations between liturgical chants and the civic culture in which they existed and which they sought to uphold. It serves as a model of how a study of localized liturgy should be treated, and as a valuable resource for those interested in the ecclesiastical history of the city (it includes a helpful handlist of chant books from the diocese of Li ge, to encourage further attention)., This study is as revelatory for the details of city politic as it is for an understanding of the liturgy that was proper to local worship practices. The book is generously illustrated with texts and translations, liturgical tables, tabular textual comparisons, and with extensive musical and artistic examples, each of which is examined with a deft interpretive palette and assessed for the import of chronological context. SPECULUM [Cynthia J. Cyrus] The culmination of more than a decade of careful archival and analytical work about the music and culture of Liège (in modern Belgium). Demonstrates how music, hagiography, and civic identity were intimately intertwined in Liège during the late Middle Ages. A particularly useful volume because of the music transcriptions and translations of chant texts, many of which are not available in the Cantus Index. Balances thorough archival work with analysis of music and text. MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTES Because of its broad scope, clear organization, and accessible style, this rich book will be of service not only to musicologists but also to scholars of liturgy, hagiography, church history, and urban history. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Weaves a compelling narrative centred on the lives of Liège's founder-bishops as celebrated in the hagiography, art, rituals and music made, enacted and re-enacted by the medieval clerical population of Liège. An expert examination of an impressively vast array of sources -- including archival, liturgical, artistic and hagiographic. A must-read for anyone interested in how one might locate the fashioning of a city's image in the extant remains of story, art, music and ritual. EARLY MUSIC An impeccably organized and elegantly crafted discussion of the previously under-appreciated liturgical materials of medieval Liège, and an enlightening study of the interrelations between liturgical chants and the civic culture in which they existed and which they sought to uphold. It serves as a model of how a study of localized liturgy should be treated, and as a valuable resource for those interested in the ecclesiastical history of the city (it includes a helpful handlist of chant books from the diocese of Liège, to encourage further attention). MUSIC & LETTERS Saucier's A Paradise of Priests represents a substantial achievement in a number of fields, including medieval and Renaissance musicology, urban history, and church history. The book's readable style will make it accessible to students as well as to scholars and teachers. A seamless and compelling narrative. --Susan Boynton, Columbia University

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingA

Series Volume Number108

Volume NumberVol. 108

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal781.71/20949346

Table Of ContentIntroduction: The Sound of Civic Sanctity in the Priestly Paradise of LiègeMartyred Bishops and Civic Origins: Promoting the Clerical CityThe Intersecting Cults of Saints Theodard and Lambert: Validating Bishops as MartyrsThe Civic Cult of Saint Hubert: Venerating Bishops as FoundersClerical Concord, Disharmony, and Polyphony: Commemorating Bishop Notger's CityMilitary Triumph, Civic Destruction, and the Changing Face of Saint Lambert's Relics: Invoking the Defensor patriae Conclusion: Hearing Civic SanctityAppendix: Medieval Service Books Preserving the Chant Repertory Sung in the City of LiègeNotesBibliographyIndex

SynopsisEmbraces an all-encompassing interdisciplinary methodology to uncover the symbiosis of saintly and civic ideals in music, rituals, and hagiographic writing celebrating the origins and identity of a major clerical center. Medieval Liège was the seat of a vast diocese in northwestern Europe and a city of an exceptional number of churches, clergymen, and church musicians. Recognized as a priestly paradise, the city accommodated as many Masses each day as Rome. In this volume, musicologist Catherine Saucier examines the music of religious worship in Liège and reveals within the liturgy and ritual a civic function by which local clerics promoted the holy status of their city. Analyzing hagiographic and historical writings, religious art, and sung ceremonies relevant to the city's genesis, destruction, and eventual rebirth, Saucier uncovers richly varied ways in which liégeois clergymen fused music with text, image, and ritual to celebrate the city's sacred episcopal origins and saintly persona. A Paradise of Priests forges new interdisciplinary connections between musicology, the liturgical arts, the cult of saints, church history, and urban studies, and is an essential resource for scholars and students interested in the history of the Low Countries, hagiography and its reception, and ecclesiastical institutions. CatherineSaucier is assistant professor of music history at Arizona State University., Medieval Li ge was the seat of a vast diocese in northwestern Europe and a city of an exceptional number of churches, clergymen, and church musicians. Recognized as a priestly paradise, the city accommodated as many Masses each day as Rome. In this volume, musicologist Catherine Saucier examines the music of religious worship in Li ge and reveals within the liturgy and ritual a civic function by which local clerics promoted the holy status of their city. Analyzing hagiographic and historical writings, religious art, and sung ceremonies relevant to the city's genesis, destruction, and eventual rebirth, Saucier uncovers richly varied ways in which li geois clergymen fused music with text, image, and ritual to celebrate the city's sacred episcopal origins and saintly persona. A Paradise of Priests forges new interdisciplinary connections between musicology, the liturgical arts, the cult of saints, church history, and urban studies, and is an essential resource for scholars and students interested in the history of the Low Countries, hagiography and its reception, and ecclesiastical institutions. Catherine Saucier is assistant professor of music history at Arizona State University., Embraces an all-encompassing interdisciplinary methodology to uncover the symbiosis of saintly and civic ideals in music, rituals, and hagiographic writing celebrating the origins and identity of a major clerical center.

LC Classification NumberML3026.8.L54