Diane Touliatos
Ashgate
Hardback
500

One of the most important, but least studied, of the medieval chant repertories is that of the Kyrie. With their Latin texts, Kyrie melodies represented musical ambitions being manifested alongside of and subsequent to the Gregorian chant - ambitions which achieved stylistic and formal distinction. This study illuminates those features of the early Kyrie that give it its distinctive character and set it apart not only from Gregorian chant but also from other types of medieval chant.