The Liber Ymnorum of Notker Balbulus - Volume I: Text and Music; Volume II: Translation

First edition with the melodies of an immensely significant ninth-century liturgical masterpiece.

List of contents

Introduction: Part I. Notker on the Liber ymnorum
Introduction: Part II. The Liber ymnorum as a Musical and Poetic Document
The Manuscript Sources of the East Frankish Sequence and Notker's Liber ymnorum
Editorial Principles
Liber ymnorum
Commentary
Vocabulary used in the Liber ymnorum
Bibliography
Index of ymniand prosae by incipit
Index of Melodies by title
Index of Manuscripts Cited

About the author

Calvin M. Bower

Summary

First edition with the melodies of an immensely significant ninth-century liturgical masterpiece.

Product details

• Authors: Calvin M. Bower
• Assisted by: Calvin M Bower (Editor), Calvin M. Bower (Editor), Calvin M Bower (Translation), Calvin M. Bower (Translation)
• Publisher: Henry Bradshaw Society
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781907497292
• ISBN: 978-1-907497-29-2
• No. of pages: 575
• Dimensions: 309 mm x 223 mm x 54 mm
• Weight: 908 g
• Series: Henry Bradshaw Society; Henry Bradshaw Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works