Why we sing : music, word, and liturgy in early Christianity : essays in honour of Anders Ekenberg's 75th birthday /

Submitted by Joseph Hafner on 3 April, 2023 - 18:46

Publication Type:

Book

Authors:

Berglund, Carl Johan,; Crostini, Barbara,; Kelhoffer, James A.,; Ekenberg, Anders,

Source:

Brill,, Volume volume 177, Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, United States, p.xiii, 612 pages : (2023)

Call Number:

BV185

Keywords:

(OCoLC)fst00860816, (OCoLC)fst00947816, (OCoLC)fst01030620, Catholic Church., Church history, Church music, fast, Gregorian chants., Liturgics., Music theory., Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Notes:

English and German.Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Zwei urchristliche Taufformeln / David Hellholm -- Didache 1-6, a Coherent Composition in the Same Tradition as the Gospel of Matthew / Jonas Holmstrand -- Praxeas und die Ausbreitung des "Monarchianismus" in Rom zwischen Migration, innerchristlichen Konflikten und der Entstehung der "Orthodoxie" / András Handl -- The Dura "Baptistery" -- a Funerary Space? / Barbara Crostini -- Yaredian Patterns in the Hymns of Aläqa Tayyä / Ezra Gebremedhin -- "Weeping at the Grave Creates the Song: Alleluia": The Nachleben of Russian Orthodox Funeral Hymns in Modern Culture / Helena Bodin."In a seminal study, Cur cantatur?, Anders Ekenberg examined Carolingian sources for explanations of why the liturgy was sung, rather than spoken. This multidisciplinary volume takes up Ekenberg's question anew, investigating the interplay of New Testament writings, sacred spaces, biblical interpretation, and reception history of liturgical practices and traditions. Analyses of Greek, Latin, Coptic, Arabic, and Ge'ez sources, as well as of archaeological and epigraphic evidence, illuminate an array of topics, including recent trends in liturgical studies; manuscript variants and liturgical praxis; Ignatius of Antioch's choral metaphor; baptism in ancient Christian apocrypha; and the significance of late ancient altar veils"--