Formal Features and Notation

Part II addresses the formal features of the prosula genre. After a first chapter that is devoted to a general discussion of prosulas and their textual and notational elements that highlights how the genre is a special window in the modes of chant learning and teaching, it examines the repertories of prosulas for the different genres of the Proper of the mass and the interplay between textual and melodic prosody. In so doing it reveals that prosulas for graduals and tracts (a relatively small repertory) display similarities with the genre of Latin songs and those for alleluias and offertories (the most extended corpuses) reveal a wide array of stylistic features and disclose insights on the local cults of saints.