ABSTRACT
Evidence of early musical practices for the Exultet in the Iberian Peninsula is found among Spanish sources of the Romano-Frankish liturgy dating from as early as the late eleventh century. As the Exultet was not a part of the Old-Hispanic liturgy, its use in Iberian churches of the eleventh century was associated with the change of rite from Old Hispanic to Romano-Frankish. The chapter describes the musical practices for the Exultet in these two sources. The main content of the Venice fragment is a series of catechumen texts, which are followed by the Exultet introduced with the rubric 'Sabbato sancto benedictio cerei paschali'. Roger E. Reynolds points out that the placement of the Exultet is unusual but not unknown, giving the examples of two unnotated Catalan sources of the same era that both employ similar arrangements. The Exultet has been written in the large script, suggesting the lack of planning for musical notation.
