Tonary
Sign in to saveA tonary is a liturgical book in the Western Christian Church which lists by incipit various items of Gregorian chant according to the Gregorian mode (tonus) of their melodies within the eight-mode system. Tonaries often include Office antiphons, the mode of which determines the recitation formula for the accompanying text (the psalm tone if the antiphon is sung with a psalm, or canticle tone if the antiphon is sung with a canticle), but a tonary may also or instead list responsories or Mass chants not associated with formulaic recitation. Although some tonaries are stand-alone works, they wer
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Encyclopedic overview
28 sectionsContents
- Function and form
- The different forms of a tonary
- The tonary's function in chant transmission
- The Carolingian names or "Byzantine" intonations for the 8 tones
- The later practice of the intonation verses
- Cross-references between tonaries during the reforms between the 10th and the 13th centuries
- The Cluniac reforms and the counter-reforms
- William of Volpiano and the Norman line
- The Aquitanian tonaries and the Winchester Troper
- Tonaries of the reform orders
- The tonaries in Italy
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Sources
- Carolingian tonaries and gradual-sacramentaries (8th–9th century)
- Lorrain cantors
- Alemannic cantors
- Aquitanian cantors
- Parisian and Cluniac cantors
- Cistercian cantors
- Dominican cantors
- Italian cantors
- Anglosaxon cantors
- Norman cantors
- Editions of tonaries
- Studies
- External links
A tonary is a liturgical book in the Western Christian Church which lists by incipit various items of Gregorian chant according to the Gregorian mode (tonus) of their melodies within the eight-mode system. Tonaries often include Office antiphons, the mode of which determines the recitation formula for the accompanying text (the psalm tone if the antiphon is sung with a psalm, or canticle tone if the antiphon is sung with a canticle), but a tonary may also or instead list responsories or Mass chants not associated with formulaic recitation. Although some tonaries are stand-alone works, they were frequently used as an appendix to other liturgical books such as antiphonaries, graduals, tropers, and prosers, and are often included in collections of musical treatises.
== Function and form == thumb|500px|The earliest Tonary: the Psalter of Charlemagne|fragment of Saint-Riquier (F-Pn lat. 13159, fol. 167r)
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