Gorigori, las metáforas del gregoriano fingido
Abstract
The objective of the present article is to define and explain the term gorigori, which alludes to the common and inappropriate practice of using liturgical music for the dead, employed over various centuries. Several representative examples of its literary use are provided, given the metaphorical nature of the term, and an anthropological approach and field note are used in the discussion of the most recent period of this phenomenon. A musical counter-model used in death-related settings is analysed, which is historically involved in economical issues relating to the suffragial power of prayer and the theology of the purgatory.
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