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The Plays of Daniel and Joseph
The Beauvais and Laon subdeacons’ offices differed from those in Sens and Le Puy in one significant respect. Each added a lively play to the liturgy of the feast: a Play of Daniel in Beauvais and an Office of Joseph in Laon.
The Beauvais Play of Daniel, now the best known and most frequently revived of medieval liturgical plays, is preserved in the same manuscript as the Beauvais office of the Circumcision.¹ Both were inscribed in the same hand and had the same musical notator,² but the play was probably composed earlier and copied into the surviving manuscript from a
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The Office of the Circumcision
Peter of Corbeil, archbishop of Sens between 1200 and his death in 1222, may have been the first to compile a fully prescribed office for the feast of the Circumcision.¹ He was previously a canon of Notre-Dame and a teacher of theology in Paris, where the young Lothar of Segni (later Innocent III) was one of his students.² He was also among those to whom Peter of Capua’s complaint was addressed and a signatory to Eudes of Sully’s decree. He was probably active in drafting the Paris reform. Two years later, Innocent appointed his former teacher to the prestigious archbishopric
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Commeationis et affinitatis gratia
In hisTopographia Hibernica(c. 1188), Giraldus Cambrensis, or Gerald of Wales, described the instrumental music of Ireland in terms which suggest a high degree of complexity and sophistication, although their precise technical interpretation remains a matter of debate.¹ The passage concludes with a further observation:
It is to be remarked that Scotland and Wales, the latter by grafting, the former by intercourse and kinship, strive to emulate Ireland in the practice of music. Ireland uses and delights in two instruments: thecithara[?harp] and thetympanum[Irishtimpán];Scotland three: thecithara, tympanum,andchorus[not conclusively identified; see
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Gerald of Wales
During the half century of his prolific career, Gerald of Wales produced works revealing a prodigious range of interests, including Neoplatonic philosophy, ethnography, political ethics, secular history, and ecclesiastical reform.¹ He was also something of a historical anomaly in the extent of his autobiographical writing. Gerald not only liberally inserted personal anecdotes into contexts only marginally related to himself;² he also wrote his own life history, collated the passages he most admired in his own works to create an authorized florilegium, and wrote two short tracts of unabashed literary self-endorsement,³ both evidently designed to prompt others to share his own
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