Indeed, I would also argue that the Tridentine "reforms" largely consisted of imposing Low Mass liturgical practices and principles upon the entire Roman Rite.
Could you please list the various mediaeval uses suppressed by Trent... As we have seen above the French uses carried on until recently, the Sarum Use has never been suppressed, the Dominican Rite is still in regular use...Trent actually did considerable damage...
The Rite of the canons of Rome that later became the Tridentine Rite, only ever had a few Sequences 4 or 5, it was not alone, many Graduale and Missale particularly from Southern Europe only have 4 or 5 sequences. Of course other places particularly in Northern Europe, had sequences for every Sunday and Feast... Do you know how many sequences could be used with the Roman Rite? Universal 5, Benedictine + 2, Franciscan +5, Mercedian +1, Local calendars at least 2 I suspect we may have as many as 10.Whether it is the glorious poetry of Sequences,
If you want Tropes use the Sarum Use, it was NOT banned by Trent.profound expository prose of the Tropes upon the antiphons and responsories of Mass and Divine Office
Well a quick look in the Graduale / Missale will find,hundreds of proper offices of saints appointed for the Divine Office
Really over night, it took 100s years for the French uses to die out and the change to the Roman Missal was led by the French themselves, I am led to believe (although no one has found any documentary evidence) that when the Hierarchy in England was re-established they did consider the Sarum Use, but chose conformity to the Roman use... Well things do not change, the Sarum Use was created to replace the various local uses, to create a uniformity of Liturgy. So many of the much lamented Northen European uses have all sprung from the idea we need to follow Rome practice, perhaps to help show by outward means our fidelity to the Pope.Thousands upon thousands of sacred chants were abruptly and quite arbitrarily removed from the Roman Rite, along with a lot of very ancient ceremonies.
As far as I am led to believe, we have very little evidence that Sarum had a low form. But we do wonder what the chantry priests did on a Monday in Lent!so again sung Low Mass, possibly Sarum.
sung Low Mass
He obviously was able to find a choir, and they would probably have been some kind of minor order.
This intro seems to have been unchanged since 2005, although the rest of the article is quite different. If it is erroneous perhaps someone with more knowledge than I have would correct it (anybody can change it, and an editor can change it back if they see fit).The French Organ Mass is a type of Low Mass that came into use during the Baroque era. Essentially it is a Low Mass with organ music playing throughout: part of the so-called alternatim practice.
Definitely. You're correct about Louis XII prescribing the O salutaris at the Elevation. Supposedly the Ave verum corpus had been sung there in former times. As for Low Mass being preferred by the kings of France, that was certainly the case later. Google "solemn low mass" and you'll get a result from Music in the Seventeenth Century by Lorenzo Bianconi, which discusses the function of the grand motet in that context - cf. the works of Clérambault. I wonder if there may have been a prohibition against women's voices at High Masses that wasn't enforced for Low Masses.Were these different manifestations at different times, Baroque v. 19th century? I saw, but can longer find, the suggestion that Louis XII who insisted that the O salutaris ... be sung at the elevation, preferred Low Mass; and that essentially he imposed some form of Missa Cantata on the royal chapels.
Supposedly the Ave verum corpus had been sung there in former times.
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