Liturgy and music in the medieval church province of Salzburg.
For many centuries, the metropolitan province of Salzburg with its episcopal and suffragan dioceses played a key role in the cultural history of Austria and Bavaria. It is thus all the more important that the many surviving liturgical musical sources which form an important part of this cultural heritage are made digitally accessible and subjected to scholarly analysis. The aim of this research project is to investigate the records surviving in manuscript form and describe the practice of liturgical and musical acts of worship.
The key sources are the Liturgical ordinals, called Libri ordinarii (LO), as they include a short form of the entire rite of a diocese or a monastery. A LO usually includes all the information required by an individual institution or a group for their services. This includes the incipits of chants, readings and prayers for the liturgy of the hours, mass and processions as well as rubrics that provide instructions on how and when particular liturgical acts should be carried out. LOi may also contain commentaries on the liturgy, which provide additional information for particular feast days or a particular liturgical activity. LOi containing information on people, places, buildings and the furnishings of sacred spaces can be of interest not only to musicologist and liturgy studies but also to historians and art historians. All this information needs in-depth examination of the LOi to become scholarly exploitable. The project will thus create a scholarly edition including an in-depth analysis of the origins of the liturgy and the commentaries. The project will add the analysis of secondary sources (liturgical and musical liturgical manuscripts) and edit them, spanning a network of information from the LOi. For this, a selection of these codices will be digitalised and completely inventoried. The project thus creates a comprehensive and scholarly edited data pool available to researchers in various disciplines (liturgics and musicology, history, art history and palaeography). The project is interdisciplinary as it involves musicological, codicological, philological and digital humanities methods.
The LOi as a textual genre need enriched editions which cannot be fully provided in printed forms. The project will provide the multi-layered texts digitally. It will create TEI documents which will be semantically enriched through domain-specific controlled vocabularies. The digitized and enriched objects will be managed, published and long-time archived in GAMS, the Fedora Commons based Humanities Asset Management System of the Centre for Information Modelling, Graz (ZiM).
The six years research project is part of the digital humanities initiative Long term projects of cultural heritage of the ÖAW, funded by the Austrian National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development.
Project leaders: Franz Karl Praßl (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz) and Robert Klugseder (ÖAW)
Main responsible staff members: Gionata Brusa (ÖAW) and Christian Steiner (ZIM)
Website: www.cantusnetwork.at
Digital edited Libri ordinarii:
| Tradition | Time | Editor | Link to the edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Archdiocese of Salzburg | ~ 1198 | Franz Karl Praßl / Gionata Brusa | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.salzburg.ur |
| 2. Seckau 2 (A-Gu 756) | 1345 | Gionata Brusa | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.seckau2 |
| 3. Seckau 3 (A-Gu 1566) | s16x | Réka Miklós | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.seckau3 |
| 4. Vorau | s13-2/s14 | Gionata Brusa | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.vorau |
| 5. Diocese of Passau | ~ 1236 | Robert Klugseder / Gionata Brusa | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.passau.ur |
| 6. Augustinian monks (= Seckau-1/PAC, A-Gu 208) | s12x | Thomas Csanády | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.seckau1.pac |
| 7. „Mengotus“ (St. Nikola) | ~ 1150 | Gionata Brusa / Robert Klugseder | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.stnikola |
| 8. Klosterneuburg | ~ 1325 | Gionata Brusa | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.klosterneuburg.knb1 |
| 9. „Pfarramtsbuch“ Hartkirchen | ~ 1490 | Robert Klugseder | (in preparation) |
| 10. Diocese of Brixen | s13-1 | Gionata Brusa | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.brixen |
| 11. San Candido (Innichen) | s16 | Gionata Brusa | (in preparation) |
| 12. Diocese of Freising | 1414 | Gionata Brusa | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.freising |
| 13. Moosburg | ~ 1360 | Gionata Brusa | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.moosburg |
| 14. Diocese of Regensburg | 1340-1380 | David Hiley / Gionata Brusa | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.regensburg |
| 15. Partial ordinal from the Regensburg cathedral | 1442 | David Hiley / Gionata Brusa | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.regensburg.reg2 |
| 16. St. Emmeram | ~ 1435 | David Hiley / Gionata Brusa | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.emmeram.emm1 |
| 17. Hirsau (in preparation) | s12i | Gionata Brusa / Robert Klugseder | gams.uni-graz.at/o:cantus.hirsau |