Prosulas for Alleluia and Offertories
Alleluia and offertory prosulas are the most numerous (about a hundred, 80% of which are alleluias) in all European manuscripts. They exploit the freely flowing, but at times carefully balanced, contours of the parent chants, so that the structure of the new text often reflects the phrasal structure of melodies. These prosulas also employ textual assonances for which the position of vowels in the prosula often coincides to that of the parent chant. In local sources some of these prosulas display the use of the Latin cursus, which opens a new perspective on the understanding of melodic cadences in chant composition in southern Italy.
2006 ◽
Vol 16
(12)
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pp. 3519-3541
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2021 ◽
Vol ahead-of-print
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1986 ◽
Vol 44
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pp. 382-383
1979 ◽
Vol 10
(3)
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pp. 145-151
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1998 ◽
Vol 5
(1)
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pp. 72A-72A
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2007 ◽
Vol 2007
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pp. 158-159
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