caa a22 4500 388052694 CHVBK 20180307125058.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0261127900001601 doi S0261127900001601 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0261127900001601 Dyer Joseph University of Massachusetts, Boston Tropis semper variantibus: Compositional strategies in the offertories of Old Roman chant [Elektronische Daten] [Joseph Dyer] In the introduction to the second volume of the series Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi, devoted in the main to a transcription of the Old Roman gradual Vat. lat. 5319, Bruno Stäblein drew up a perceptive assessment of the native Italian chant style, contrasting it with the melodic style of Gregorian chant, a repertoire considered by many scholars to be the result of a process of local ‘editing' of the Roman chant introduced north of the Alps in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Stäblein quoted a remark about the singing of ‘alleluia' from Cassiodorus' commentary on Psalm 104: ‘The tongues of cantors are adorned with [alleluia], and the Lord's basilica joyfully responds with it. Innovations are always being introduced to it with varying tropes' (tropis semper variantibus innovatur). Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Early Music History Cambridge University Press 17(1998-10), 1-60 0261-1279 17<1 1998 17 EMH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261127900001601 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261127900001601 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dyer Joseph University of Massachusetts, Boston NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Early Music History Cambridge University Press 17(1998-10), 1-60 0261-1279 17<1 1998 17 EMH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 082678359 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge