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chants (typically an alleluia) for individual Masses. Eleven <strong>of</strong> these chants use the same<br />

texts as AMS chants but are written for a different chant genre. 7 <strong>The</strong>re are regional and<br />

super-regional chants with many concordances to the Aquitanian graduals as well as<br />

chants found only in Pa903.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se repertories <strong>of</strong> neo-Gregorian chants, prepared in the traditions and<br />

preferences <strong>of</strong> St. Yrieix, added elements <strong>of</strong> particular significance to the liturgical<br />

practices <strong>of</strong> the establishment. To refine the focus on these repertories, Table 5-5 shows<br />

eleven major feasts, singled out on the basis th<strong>at</strong> none belongs to the intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />

Gregorian tradition, each has a formulary <strong>of</strong> neo-Gregorian chants (with the exception <strong>of</strong><br />

the Chains <strong>of</strong> Peter), and each is embellished in Pa903 with tropes, prosulas, prosas,<br />

and/or multiple Masses. <strong>The</strong>se Masses show th<strong>at</strong> St. Yrieix prominently employed neo-<br />

Gregorian chants to honor: (1) the p<strong>at</strong>rons <strong>of</strong> St. Yrieix (Aredius, Martin, and Benedict),<br />

(2) Propers <strong>of</strong> the Gallican tradition otherwise absent from the Roman calendar<br />

(Conversion <strong>of</strong> Paul, Finding <strong>of</strong> the Cross, and Chair <strong>of</strong> Peter), (3) the leading regional<br />

p<strong>at</strong>ron St. S<strong>at</strong>urninus (but not Martial), 8 and (4) All Saints, one <strong>of</strong> the newer feasts added<br />

to the church calendar. <strong>The</strong>y represent a cross section <strong>of</strong> contemporary liturgical chant<br />

composition in the wake <strong>of</strong> the Gregorian transmission with each appearing in four or<br />

five <strong>of</strong> the surviving Aquitanian graduals. 9<br />

7 Chants in different genres th<strong>at</strong> share the same text may carry the same melodies or different<br />

ones. In the absence <strong>of</strong> musical not<strong>at</strong>ion in AMS, it is sufficient to note the similarity <strong>of</strong> texts, but the issue<br />

<strong>of</strong> similar music cannot be explicitly resolved.<br />

8 St. Martial <strong>of</strong> Limoges is represented in Pa903 with a Gregorian Proper using chants commonly<br />

assigned to confessors.<br />

9 Appendix A5-4 lists the Mass formularies <strong>of</strong> these feasts and the concordances with the other<br />

Aquitanian graduals from which these details have been derived.<br />

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