WORKSHOP SCHEDULE: | Church Heritage Museum, Šv. Mykolas St. 9
Thursday, MAY 7 th
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM;
2:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Friday, MAY 8 th
9:00 AM – 11:45 AM;
2:00 PM – 5:30 PM
THE OFFICE: | St. Anne’s Church, Maironio g. 8
21:00 PM

Registration can be found in the segment Festival Pass.

THE SQUARE NOTATION IN THE 13TH CENTURY
THOMAS OF AQUINUS – IERONIMUS OF MORAVIA
THE CORPUS CHRISTI OFFICE

Workshop participants, under the direction of Marcel Pérès, will prepare chants for the Corpus Christi office

Pope Urban IV th , on 8 September 1264, officially instituted the feast of Corpus Christi, for the whole Church. Urban IV had previously been archdeacon of Liège and confessor of Julienne de Cornillon who was with Eve of Liège the promoter of this festival. The composition of the texts for the office of Corpus Christi was entrusted to Saint Thomas who was then in Paris. It was at this time that he also wrote his theological sum, contemporary with the musical sum of another Dominican, Jerome of Moravia, who was also in Paris at the time. It can be legitimately assumed that, Jerome of Moravia composed the music for this office. In any case, the treatise of Jerome is the only text from the Middle Ages that describes the different ways of interpreting square notation. Thus, with this office, we have a precious testimony of music composed at the same time as the treatise that explains how to compose and perform these songs. We will use a manuscript written in 1265, one year after the official promulgation of Corpus Christi. Moreover, in addition to its musical value, this office, whose text expresses the profound scriptural science of St Thomas, introduces us to a deep and essential liturgical contemplation.
Source :
Fribourg/Freiburg, Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster, Ms. 2 vers 1265