This book presents the most recent findings of twenty of the foremost European and North American researchers into the music of the Middle Ages. The chronological scope of their topics is wide, from the ninth to the fifteenth century. The findings presented in this book will be of interest to those engaged by music and the liturgy, active researchers and students. All the papers are carefully and extensively documented by references to medieval sources.

Contents: Two paradigms of orality: the office and the mass, László Dobszay; Salamanca to Sydney: a newly-discovered manuscript of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, Jane Morlet Hardie; Gregorian responsories based on texts from the Book of Judith, Ruth Steiner; Modes and modality: a unifying concept for Western chant?, John Caldwell; Réÿme, Cluny, Dijon, Barbara Haggh and Michel Huglo; The first dictionary of music: the Vocabularium musicum of ms Monte Cassino 318, Alma Santosuosso; The twilight of troping, Theodore Karp; To trope or not to trope? Or, how was that English Gloria performed?, William John Summers; Why Marian motets on non-Marian tenors? An answer, Rebecca A. Baltzer; Consecrating the house: the Carmelites and the office of the dedication of a church, James John Boyce, O. Carm.; A historical context for Guido d'Arezzo's use of distinctio, Dolores Pesce; The musical text of the introit Resurrexi, David Hughes; Chants for four masses in the Editio princeps of the Pontificale romanum (1485), James Borders; The double office at St Peter's Basilica on Dominica de Gaudete, Joseph Dyer; Philip the Chancellor and the conductus prosula: 'motetish' works from the School of Notre-Dame, Thomas B. Payne; Vox - littera - cantus: aspects of voice and vocality in medieval song, Philip Weller; Ambrosian processions of the saints, Terence Bailey; Patterns and paleography: revisions, variants, errors, and methods, Andrew Hughes; Notker in Aquitaine, Alejandro Enrique Planchart; The Historia Sancti Magni by Hermannus Contractus (1013-1054), David Hiley; Publications of Bryan Gillingham; Bibliography; Indexes.