THE PRODUCT
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Introduction
The present work is a reproduction, on CD-ROM, of the five Choir Books of Saint Michael the Archangel in Stroncone - a gradual in two books and an antiphonary in three books - which, as a whole, contain the entire Gregorian repertoire in use during the liturgical year in a church of the Roman area in the XIV century. The core of this work is, therefore, the reproduction of the 1932 pages of the Choir books, together with an analysis of their over 8,000 tracks. The musical incipit and explicit have been indexed in an alphanumerical code.
A database runs all the data so that any possible search on them can be performed. A liturgical - musical code is the result of the work of many authors, each of whom took care of one of its many aspects: the liturgist, who introduced its contents; the craftsmen involved in the making of it (from preparation of parchment to binding); the authors of texts and of the music, and those who painted the several decorations (from simple watermarked initial letters to illumination of most high artistic value): all their works result in that Chant, a combination of music and prayer, through which the Christian liturgy spread all over the world for about a millennium. A codex analysis can be found for each Choir book, containing the explanation of the liturgical structure of the Holy Mass and of the Office of the Hours as shown in the books, as well as an iconographic analysis of the illuminations and a study upon their style.
The Stroncone Choir Books are both universal and peculiar at the highest level. Through the enclosed database, a research can be performed upon the entire Gregorian repertoire of the XIV century, which is substantially the repertoire we know nowadays. At the same time, the Choir Books have the peculiarity of being in use at the church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Stroncone until the end of the XIX century. In order to set the Choir books in the society that had them produced, a summary of all the contemporary documents present in the Stroncone Historical Archives was drawn up. The several summaries were collected into a database, which will be an instrument for further investigations. The artistic context in which the choir books should be placed was described in a series of files concerning the works of art located in Stroncone.
You begin consulting the work inside a virtual XIV century church, in order to enter the spiritual atmosphere that enhanced the production of codices.
In the final full-screen page it will be possible to go to the several sessions:
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