The Hispanic rite, a medieval non-Roman Western liturgy, was practiced across the Iberian Peninsula for over half a millennium and functioned as the most distinct marker of Christian identity in this region. As Christians typically began every day throughout the liturgical year by singing avespertinus, this chant genre in particular provides a unique window into the cultural and religious life of medieval Iberia. But while the Hispanic rite has the largest corpus of extant manuscripts of all non-Roman liturgies in the West, which testifies to the importance placed on theirtransmission through political and cultural upheavals, its chants use a notational system that lacks clear specification of pitch and has kept them barred from in-depth study. Text, Liturgy and Music in the Hispanic Rite is the first detailed analysis of the interactions between textual, liturgical, and musical variables across the entire extant repertoire of the chant genre most central to the Hispanic rite, the vespertinus. By approaching the vespertini through aholistic methodology that integrates melody and text, author Raquel Rojo Carrillo identifies the genre's norms and traces the different shapes it adopts across the liturgical year and on different occasions. In this way, the book offers an unprecedented insight into the liturgical edifice of theHispanic rite and the daily experience of Christians in medieval Iberia. | Text Music and Liturgy in the Hispanic Rite by Raquel Rojo Carrillo, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters