El canto llano de las lamentaciones de Jeremías en la Península Ibérica

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe survey of the Lamentation genre in a European framework confirms the survival of a medieval plainchant tradition of Hispanic roots in the Iberian World. In fact, the cultural importance of these melodies lies in the identification of a local medieval tradition, of non-Gregorian origin, which highlights an important discovery. Despite the abolition of the Spanish rite after the Council of Burgos (1081), the medieval Gregorian reform was not completely implemented in the Iberian Peninsula, and some of the Spanish texts and melodies survived the official introduction of the Franco-Roman rite. Precisely, in those repertories whose texts coincided in both traditions (Hymns, Passions and Lamentations), the Spanish Church was reluctant to replace chants rooted in its tradition with those used in the Franco-Roman liturgy. Despite the fact that the Franco-Roman tradition dominated the practice of this repertoire in Christianity, the medieval and renaissance Iberian sources of plainchant confirm the use of a different native tradition to the rest of the European rites. This has already been described in other studies, but the present research provides a new perspective that brings together the extreme earlier conclusions of Casiano Rojo, German Prado, Günther Massenkeil, Robert Snow and Jane Hardie.