Benedicamus Domino tropes in the monastery of Benedictine nuns at St George’s, Prague

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caac053" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caac053</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/em/caac053" target="_blank" >10.1093/em/caac053</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Benedicamus Domino tropes in the monastery of Benedictine nuns at St George’s, Prague

Original language description

Within the rich spectrum of musical documents from medieval Bohemia, the corpus of tropes that survives in manuscripts from St George’s convent at Prague Castle is perhaps the most important. Forty-two Benedicamus Domino tropes appear in manuscripts from the monastery – one of the richest and most important female foundations in Central Europe, with a small community of nuns from noble families – most of them compiled at the end of the 13th and the first decades of the 14th centuries. The collection includes Benedicamus tropes that were circulating in the wider Central European territory, tropes that had their origins in the west and for which Prague constituted one of the furthest destinations within their dissemination, and a significant number of chants survive only in manuscripts from St George’s and may have had their origins in this milieu. These Benedicamus tropes exhibit a striking variety of forms and richness in their melodic material: a number of polyphonic tropes employ a Stimmtausch technique, others are wholly structured as strophic songs with or without refrains. Many of the trope texts indicate that they were meant to be sung by both male and female communities at St George’s, and their appearance in books with private prayers suggests that they may also have served an educational purpose.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GX19-28306X" target="_blank" >GX19-28306X: Old Myths, New Fact: Czech Lands in the Centre of 15th-century Music Developments</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Early Music

ISSN

0306-1078

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

50

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

419-434

UT code for WoS article

000958733100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85162023133