Today is the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Some reformed communities continued to celebrate the feast after the Reformation; here’s the Alleluia Assumpta est Maria!

Source: Missale (Wittenberg: Lehmann, 1589)
Copy: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 2” Dr 8354<a>
Link: http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000F01A00000000

#Assumption #Reformation #Reformazing #BookHistory #MusicalBookHistory #EarlyMusic #Plainchant #ProtestantPlainchant #Histodons

There is something very special about working with the only extant copy of an #EarlyModern book; even more so when it’s heavily used and repaired. What a lovely way to spend a Monday!

Unfortunately the book is not digitized and I can’t share my images. But picture a hand-sized octavo volume with a liberally underlined preface that contains instructions for celebrating worship and lots of notated music.

@bookhistodons
@histodons

#MusicalBookHistory #BookHistory #PrintedPlainchant #ProtestantPlainchant #Reformation #Reformazing

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Today is #Easter! Here is (most) of the antiphon "Cum Rex gloriae" from a lesser-known #ProtestantPlainchant source: Keuchenthal's _KirchenGesenge Latinisch & Deudsch_ (Wittenberg, 1573).

Copy: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 2 Liturg. 431 c.
#MusicalBookHistory #BookHistory

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The first case study of my @MSCActions@twitter.com project is complete! So I wrote a little something about spending the past eight months being encircled by saints but buried by spreadsheets:

https://mariannecegillion.wordpress.com/2022/12/19/surrounded-by-a-cloud-of-witnesses/

#MusicalBookHistory #Twitterstorians #ReSound #ProtestantPlainchant

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mcegillion/status/1604871344553791488

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Love when I get to write about Grumpy Luther being upset that people translated chant into the vernacular!

(In fact, I have a whole #OpenAccess article about it:
https://academic.oup.com/ml/article/102/4/657/6333640)

[And a blogpost: https://mariannecegillion.wordpress.com/2022/04/19/what-reformers-thought-about-plainchant-how-they-used-it-and-why-it-matters-new-publication/]

#MusicalBookHistory #ProtestantPlainchant

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mcegillion/status/1598612536420622337

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Love some #ProtestantPlainchant and #Polychant / #Chantophony! https://twitter.com/TheGesualdoSix/status/1597950470172991488

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mcegillion/status/1597953343875584007

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Reading through the evangelical order of Mass for Riga (1530) and am struck by how very precise the author was about who sings (priest, choir, congregation), what (plainchant, hymns), in which languages (German, Latin Greek). Music mattered & chant mattered!
#ProtestantPlainchant

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mcegillion/status/1597951913189732353