Singing the Lives of the Saints: Hagiographical-Historical Intersections in Music and Worship

Catherine Saucier

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In: Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500â1500

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As a distinctive component of the annual liturgical cycle proper to each medieval community, musical profiles of the saints voiced in the chants of the Mass and Office became one of the most familiar and internalized forms of hagiographical narrative. Because musical settings of excerpts from a saintâs vita typically varied according to place and time, these carefully crafted vignettes at once betray the ideals that were prized by a given community and document the changing meaning of saints and their veneration at defining moments in history. Yet how, exactly, might music intersect with history to meditate on the spiritual, and at times political, meaning of a saintâs life? This chapter examines a variety of methods by which singing clerics combined, adapted, and re-interpreted hagiographical, biblical, exegetical, and historical sources through case studies of chants for two saints venerated prominently in the medieval diocese of LiÃ¨ge:Â the universally-recognized apostle John the Evangelist, and the local bishop Lambert.

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Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500â1500

Series:Â Reading Medieval Sources, Volume: 4

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 18 Dec 2019

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