This article presents a typology for a large corpus of Proper Offices from the former Francia occidentalis, composed before the year 1000. A threefold classification for these historiae will be proposed: (1) the Carolingian basilical Office (8–9 c.); (2) Offices organized in modal order (after 900); and (3) Offices composed around the year 1000. The methodology established for this hitherto unpublished, not widely known repertory will permit certain conclusions to be drawn. For example, some Offices have historical importance either because of their age or because of the evolution of the style of melodic composition which they imply, or because they belong to a hagiographic output significant in the history of Carolingian texts. These historiae suppose the literary participation of well-known authors like Hilduin of St Denis, Hincmar of Rheims or Milo and Hucbald of St Amand, thus inviting us to rethink attribution criteria applicable to these historiae. I propose to focus essentially on the written transmission of the repertory in Western sources of plainchant. This transmission is characterized by a series of continuities and disruptions in the process of diffusion and exchanges among basilicas, monasteries and cathedrals of Carolingian and post-Carolingian Francia. The reworking of hagiographic texts suggests a model applicable to the rewriting process found in musical compositions.
The cult of the saints had natural consequences on liturgical issues. An antiphonary and breviary, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries and that were used in Arles and Marseille, make it possible to study the liturgical cult which had grown out of hagiographie texts. Among the celebrations peculiar to western Provence dioceses are Victor’s, Jean Cassien’s, Marthe’s, Satumin’s, Lazare’s and Trophime’s. The presence of a whole office of Saint Victor shows the prominence of the abbey of Marseille, head of the order. Musicological analysis places the putting together of the corpus in the 10th century at the earliest, or even after the year 1000. It takes part in the great ecclesiastical revival of the 1 1th century, when Saint Victor was spreading Gregory’s reformation. The close relations between Saint Saturnin’ s and Saint Trophime’s offices, and the glorification of the latter’s apostolic character, seem to depend on the old claim of the city of Arles to the title of Primate of Gaul. Saint Trophime’s office remains nonetheless limited to the city of Arles and the saints from Marseille prevail, even in Arles.
Les répertoires de chants pour saint Martin dans le monde latin 1 Deux travaux ont consacré une étude importante sur les répertoires de chant pour le grand confesseur du IV e siècle : Dom Guy Oury, qui après une première étude de la liturgie de la messe a rédigé en 1967 un article sur les formulaires et les différentes messes qui ont circulé dans le monde latin 2. Ensuite, une étude non moins riche et documentée du Père Gy en 1988, concernant les répons de l'Office. Voici donc l'occasion d'établir avec quelques travaux complémentaires parus depuis, une mise en perspective et une synthèse sur le corpus des chants « martiniens » antérieur au milieu du X e siècle. 1. Sigles utilisés : GREG : répertoire romano-franc ou grégorien ; ROM : répertoire vieuxromain, romain antique ; MIL : répertoire ambrosien ou milanais. 2. « Les Messes de saint Martin… » Cet article fut suivi d'un autre dans le même périodique « Formulaires anciens… ».
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