Oral and Written Transmission in Chant

Zusatztext '...the introductions to each volume are excellent...' Early Music Review 'It would be hard to overestimate the value of the work presented in these collections.' Medieval Review Informationen zum Autor Thomas Forrest Kelly is Harvard College Professor and Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music! Harvard University! USA Zusammenfassung The writing down of music is one of the triumphant technologies of the West. Without writing, the performance of music involves some combination of memory and improvisation. This volume deals with the materials of chant from the point of view of transmission. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Part I Music Writing: The early history of music writing in the West! Leo Treitler; De accentibus toni oritur nota quae dicitur neuma: prosodic accents! the accent theory! and the Paleofrankish script! Charles M. Atkinson. Part II Notation and Performance: Gregorian chant: the restoration of the chant and 75 years of recording! Mary Berry; The Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra in Rome and the semiological school of Dom Eugène Cardine! Nino Albarosa; The performance of plainchant: some preliminary observations of the new era! Lance W. Brunner. Part III Oral and Written Transmission: Homer and Gregory: the transmission of epic poetry and plainchant! Leo Treitler; 'Centonate' chant: Ãobles Flickwerk or E pluribus unus?! Leo Treitler; Evidence for the traditional view of the transmission of Gregorian chant! David G. Hughes; Charlemagne's archetype of Gregorian chant! Kenneth Levy; 'Communications'! concerning Levy and Hughes! above! Leo Treitler; Levy's response; Hughes's response; The debate about the oral and written transmission of chant! László Dobszay; On Gregorian orality! Kenneth Levy; The transmission of Western chant in the 8th and 9th centuries: evaluating Kenneth Levy's reading of the evidence! Emma Hornby; Chant research at the turn of the century and the analytical programme of Helmut Hucke! Edward Nowacki; Ways of telling stories! Susan Rankin; Interrelationships among Gregorian chants: an alternative view of creativity in early chant! Theodore Karp; Index. ...

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• Authors: Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly, Thomas Forrest Kelly
• Assisted by: Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly (Editor), Thomas Forrest Kelly (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2009
• EAN: 9780754626268
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-2626-8
• No. of pages: 452
• Series: Music in Medieval Europe; Music in Medieval Europe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, MUSIC / Religious / Christian, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Christianity, Renaissance style, Christian liturgy, prayerbooks & hymnals, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600), Medieval style, Prayers and liturgical material, Sacred and religious music, Sacred & Religious Music, materials;medieval;chant;folklore