Approaching the Communion Melodies

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Optical and Acoustic Aura in the Medieval Image: The Golden Retable of the Pentecost at Stavelot

“…This group of communion-responsories are characterized with distinct melodies, reaching beyond pentachordal limits and arched phrases of exceptional scope. (McKinnon 1992;Maiani 1996Maiani , 1998aMaiani , 1998bMaiani , 2000. They are perhaps one of the last genres to be added to the Roman chant tradition in the mid-eighth century before it was exported to the Carolingians (McKinnon 1992;Maiani 2000, 286).…”