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This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.
Table des matières
Part I. Musical Literacy: 1. Writing music; 2. Palaeographical study of neumatic notations (from 1681 to the present); 3. Music notations 800-900: the evidence; Part II. Music Scripts: 4. Graphic techniques and strategies; 5. Frankish scripts; 6. Lotharingian and Breton scripts; 7. Palaeofrankish script; 8. Music scripts: conclusions; Part III. Writing Sound: 9. Signs and meaning; 10. Writing music: accents; 11. The Carolingian invention of music writing.
A propos de l'auteur
Susan Rankin is Professor of Medieval Music at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Emmanuel College and a Fellow of the British Academy. Professor Rankin's published works include The Music of the Medieval Liturgical Drama in France and England, 2 vols (1989), and Music in the Medieval English Liturgy: Plainsong and Mediæval Music Society Centennial Essays (1992), co-edited with David Hilley. She has also edited The Winchester Troper: Introduction and Facsimile, Early English Church Music 50 (2007), and with Wulf Arlt, Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen Codices 484 and 381, 3 vols (1996). Professor Rankin has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on medieval music, its manuscripts and notations, and on ritual.
Résumé
A comprehensive examination of the first appearance of detailed musical notations in early medieval Europe. This magisterial study by leading scholar Susan Rankin dates the first appearance of such notations much earlier than has previously been assumed, delivering a crucial new foundational model for the understanding of later Western notations.
