Final Report Summary - OLD HISPANIC OFFICE (Shaping text, Shaping melody, Shaping experience in and through the Old Hispanic office)
the kind of theological multi-layering so visible in the Old Hispanic materials, and others tried to capture something of the aesthetic or devotional impact that the medieval chant would have had on its original listeners. Since the medieval melodies cannot be transcribed, we cannot perform them nowadays. This presents an alternative way of reimagining the cultural impact of those materials
within a modern-day compositional idiom.