„Proles de caelo prodiit…”
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„Proles de caelo prodiit…”
Ltrehoz:
Szoliva, Gábriel
Dtum:
2016
Tma:
ML Literature of music / zeneirodalom, zeneművek
Tartalmi lers:
The rhymed Office of Saint Francis of Assisi was composed between 1232 and
1235 by Julian of Speyer, the
cantus magister
of the Paris convent at the time. He
used for his work a few already approved poems written by clerics. In the first
Vespers Julian included the hymn
Proles de caelo prodiit
of Pope Gregory IX. The
oldest musical sources of the Office reveal that this hymn had two different melo-
dies (Mel 751 and 752 in Bruno Stäblein’s edition). In the first section of this
paper the musical origins of the hymn are investigated for in the Franciscan sourc-
es it is not clear which one of its melodies might have been composed by Julian,.
The detailed analysis of Mel 752 confirms its musical similarity to the responsory
Euntes inquit,
an item of the Office certainly composed by Julian. Mel 751, on the
other hand, seems to be an earlier melody for the hymn.
A turning-point in the history of Mel 752 came when the hymn’s melody
moved beyond the liturgical borders of Franciscan communities and became wide-
spread throughout Europe. It had appeared in the secular Office in Hungary by
the 14th century. In the second part of this paper, all the medieval Hungarian
sources of Mel 752 are reviewed. According to these sources, the melody was sung
in different liturgical Offices, namely, Prime, Compline, and in the honour of
patron saints (e.g. Saint Anne and Saint Stephen, King of Hungary). A musical
variant of Mel 752 found only in the Hungarian secular sources, also appears. It is
fairly certain that medieval Franciscan communities in Hungary also chanted
Proles de caelo
in the Office of Saint Francis, although contemporary musical
sources (i.e. notated Hymnals) have not survived.
The early Hungarian Protestant communities in the second half of the 16th
and the first half of the 17th century inserted the Hungarian variant of Mel 752
into their morning service. This practice seems not to have existed outside Hunga-
ry, at least according to the evidence. Mel 752 disappeared from Catholic churches
as well as from the repertory of Protestant services in the second half of the 17th
century. From this time on, it was only Franciscan communities that chanted the
melody in Hungary, certainly in its Franciscan variant. It appears only sporadically
in the hymnbooks printed for the faithful. A few metrical arrangements of the
hymn melody are also known from the Baroque era of Hungary.
The musical examples of
Proles de caelo
that have been investigated throw light
upon a complex historical and musicological process, in which the parts of an
Office in honour of a popular medieval saint – Saint Francis – move away from
their original context to serve new liturgical functions. The Hungarian sources
open up a secret chapter in the multifarious history of the hymn
Proles de caelo.
Nyelv:
angol
Tpus:
Article
PeerReviewed
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Formtum:
text
Azonost:
Szoliva, Gábriel (2016) „Proles de caelo prodiit…”. ZENETUDOMÁNYI DOLGOZATOK, 2013-2. pp. 70-82. ISSN 0139-0732
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