Una edición singular de canto llano en los albores del siglo xixel gradual de la misa impreso por José Doblado

Abstract

The editorial project promoted by José Doblado to print the plainchant repertoire in large choirbook format is one of the milestones of printed music in Spain between the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Although it was not completed for political and economic reasons, at least the author could publish one volume: the Mass Gradual with chants from Advent until the ferias after Ash Wednesday. After outlining its material features and musical and textual forms, we will focus on the analysis of four significant examples: the four introits of the Sundays of Advent. Firstly, we will be point out the connection of these chants with the Aquitanian melodic tradition imported from southern France. In order to prove such filiation, we will compare a wide range of sources dated between the 10th and 12th centuries, representatives of different European geographical spaces. Thus, we will proceed to a melodic and modal analysis in order to unravel the most characteristic features of the introits; in parallel, we will take into account the historical and cultural background of the period. The contemporary theoretical treatises as well as some of the most important reformed plainchant books (such as the Medicean Gradual) are also a significant object of study in this research to broaden and deepen our understanding of this music.