The building of the RCH Institute for Musicology will be closed between November 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023 due to technical reasons. The staff of the Institute can be reached by email. Thank you for your understanding!
This closure only concerns the Institute itself, the Museum of Music History is still open from 10:00 to 16:00 every day, except for Mondays. |
Divine Office
Alongside the Mass, the Divine Office is the main liturgical framework for singing Gregorian chant repertory and one of the poles of plainchant research.
- The texts and musical elements form a unit that is functionally decided, carefully chosen, and incorporated into a system.
- The careful choice and incorporation into a system may differ between periods, and also between places and regions, so that the stock of elements in the Divine Office may express self-identification in terms of periods, places, institutions and regions.
Research has the following outcomes:
- European usages and rites become distinguishable and susceptible to description.
- Diverse historico-genealogical and regional-institutional relation systems behind them emerge.
- It becomes possible to reconstruct the practice of liturgical chant.
- The classical and late medieval layers of plainchant style become distinguishable.