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Shared Sounds: Using Borrowed Melodies to Create Shared Contexts in Late Medieval Saints’ Offices
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SYSNO ASEP 0643855 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Shared Sounds: Using Borrowed Melodies to Create Shared Contexts in Late Medieval Saints’ Offices Author(s) Hallas, Rhianydd (MSUA-W) ORCID Article number 1585 Source Title Religions. - : MDPI
Roč. 16, č. 12 (2025)Number of pages 17 s. Publication form Online - E Language eng - English Country CH - Switzerland Keywords contrafact ; Jan Hus ; St Adalbert Subject RIV AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage OECD category Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy) R&D Projects GN22-36033O GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Method of publishing Open access Institutional support MSUA-W - RVO:67985921 UT WOS 001647425100001 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16121585 Annotation This article explores the use of borrowed chants and melodies to create and affirm sanctity in late medieval martyr saints’ liturgies, with a focus on Jan Hus, St Adalbert, and St Demetrius within the Bohemian and Hungarian liturgical traditions. Common, Semi-Common, and Proper chants with contrafacted melodies played an important role in providing intertextual nuance and establishing a shared sound with earlier repertories. This shared context then imbued both familiarity and authority on the new chants, and therefore the celebration, legitimising a new feast from its inception and adding a layer of sonic complexity reaching beyond the words. The borrowed sounds thus underpinned the sanctity of the new feasts and anchored new liturgical practices within established musical traditions. Workplace Masaryk Institute - Archives (since 2006) Contact Jan Boháček, bohacek@mua.cas.cz, Tel.: 286 010 134 Year of Publishing 2026 Electronic address https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16121585
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