ERC Advanced Grant · 2022
Giving Voice to Hispanic Chant through a Phylogenetic Study of Medieval Plainchant
Plainchant, the sacred Christian chant, is the most ancient Western corpus preserved in musical notation. Before the unifying adoption of the Gregorian liturgy throughout Europe in the 9th century, a number of liturgical families –each one with its own chant repertoire– emerged in the ancient Western Roman provinces. Among them, the Hispanic liturgy was recorded –text and music– in manuscripts between ca. 700 and ca. 1300. These sources allow us to know the liturgy’s ceremonies and texts, but not the melodies themselves. In fact, notational signs do not indicate the specific intervals between the notes, since they were written prior to the use of a notational system in which each individual…
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