Fr. 236.00

Music and Medieval Manuscripts - Paleography and Performance

English · Hardback

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Zusatztext '... well worth dipping into: you will probably read more than you intended.' Early Music Review '... a rewarding volume both to dip into and to use for specialised reference purpose. Its diversity should attract a wide range of readers...' Church Music Quarterly '... [a] fine collection...' Notes 'In this collection of essays! edited by a musicologist with profound interests in paleography (John Haines) and a codicologist who is a specialist in the performance of early music (Randall Rosenfeld)! a diverse group has 'written well'! offering a 'good day' to scholars and performers alike... [a] fine collection...' Muse Informationen zum Autor Randall Rosenfeld Klappentext Combing the areas of paleography, performance, liturgy and music, the essays in this volume take as their focus medieval manuscripts and their different uses. Dedicated to Professor Andrew Hughes, this festschrift features contributions from leading scholars in these fields. Zusammenfassung Combing the areas of paleography, performance, liturgy and music, the essays in this volume take as their focus medieval manuscripts and their different uses. Dedicated to Professor Andrew Hughes, this festschrift features contributions from leading scholars in these fields. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Andrew Hughes in focus; Part I Paleography: The script reform of Petrarch: an Illusion?, Albert Derolez; Tres digiti scribunt: a typology of late-antique and medieval pen grips, Randall Rosenfeld; Erasures in 13th-century music, John Haines; Part II Music: The musical stanzas in Martin Le Franc's Le Champion des Dames, Margaret Bent; Women's lament and the Neuming of the classics, Jan M. Ziolkowski; Baghdadi rhythmic theories and practices in 12th-century Andalusia, George Dimitri Sawa; Problems and possibilities in the performance of Trent 93's Polyphonic Introits, Brian E. Power; Music, rhetoric and the emperor's new clothes,Timothy J. McGee; Part III Drama: 15th-century Yorkshire drama: a hypothesis, Alexandra F. Johnston; Civic musicians in Wales and the Marches, 1430-1642, David Klausner; A few odd visits: unusual settings of the Visitatio sepulchri, Carol Symes; Part IV Liturgy: Dufay's motet Balsamus et munda cera and the papal ceremony of the Agnus Dei, Craig Wright; Origins and affiliations of the pre-sarum office for Anne in the Stowe breviary, Sherry Reames; Early cycles of office chants for the Feast of Mary Magdalene, David Hiley; The Kenilworth Missal (Chichester cathedral, MS Med. 2), Richard Pfaff; Publications of Andrew Hughes; Index....

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Authors John Rosenfeld Haines, Randall Rosenfeld, Rosenfeld Randall
Assisted by John Haines (Editor), Haines John (Editor)
Publisher ASHGATE PUB CO
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 21.05.2004
 
EAN 9780754609919
ISBN 978-0-7546-0991-9
No. of pages 472
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries

MUSIC / Printed Music / General, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Musical scores, lyrics & libretti, Musical scores, lyrics and libretti

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