This study uncovers the musical foundations and performance suggestions of books of hours, the prayer manuals that were the most popular and widespread books of the late Middle Ages.

Michael Alan Anderson is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. He specializes in European sacred music from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, with emphasis on lay devotion and saints.

Introduction Part 1: Music of the Offices 1. Psalms 2. Antiphons 3. Hymns 4. Responsories 5. Dialogues Part 2: Music beyond the Offices 6. The Seven Penitential Psalms 7. The Litany 8. Suffrages 9. Mass for the Virgin