Medieval Music (up to c. 1400)
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The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the East
The two books of Scriptor Cantor & Notator present an innovative multi-author project dealing with the complex interconnections between learning writing and performing chant in the Middle Ages. A number of different methodological approaches have been employed with the aim of beginning to understand the phenomenon of chant transmission over a large geographical area linking and contrasting modern definitions of East and West. Thus in spite of this wide geographical spread and the consequent variety of rites languages and musical styles involved the common thread of parallels and similarities between various chant repertoires arising from the need to fix oral repertories in a written form and the challenges involved in so doing are what bring this wide variety of repertoires and approaches together. This multi-centric multi-disciplinary approach will encourage scholars working in these areas to consider their work as part of a much larger geographical and historical picture and thus reveal to reader and listener more and far richer patterns of connections and developments than might otherwise have been suspected. The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the East brings together articles on ancient Greek Byzantine Coptic and Armenian music scripts in the East. Together with the collection of essays published in The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the West these books discuss local scribal peculiarities and idiosyncrasies beyond the cultural and geographical contexts of production and uses of their manuscript sources.
The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the West
Scriptor Cantor & Notator is an innovative multi-author project dealing with the complex interconnections between learning writing and performing chant in the Middle Ages. A number of different methodological approaches have been employed with the aim of beginning to understand the phenomenon of chant transmission over a large geographical area linking and contrasting modern definitions of East and West. Thus in spite of this wide geographical spread and the consequent variety of rites languages and musical styles involved the common thread of parallels and similarities between various chant repertoires arising from the need to fix oral repertories in a written form and the challenges involved in so doing are what bring this wide variety of repertoires and approaches together. This multi-centric multi-disciplinary approach will encourage scholars working in these areas to consider their work as part of a much larger geographical and historical picture and thus reveal to reader and listener more and far richer patterns of connections and developments than might otherwise have been suspected.
Scriptor Cantor & Notator is published in two books. The first The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the West brings together articles on several different families of early music scripts in the Latin West and provides a vividly diverse picture of some of the best current scholarship on the various types of ancient and medieval musical notation.
Music in the Carolingian World
Witnesses to a Metadiscipline, Essays in Honor of Charles M. Atkinson
Music in the Carolingian World stems from a conference honoring the career and wide-ranging research of Prof. Charles M. Atkinson leading scholar in early-medieval studies and author of the award-winning monograph The Critical Nexus (2010). The volume brings together seventeen essays to explore the broad ramifications of music as an arena of study in early-medieval culture; taken together they manifest the status of music not just as a field of research but as a metadiscipline that embraces numerous fields and specializations in medieval studies including philosophy theology literature philology paleography liturgy education political and institutional history as well as the practice theory and transmission of chant and related musical repertories. The essays are grouped into the four thematic categories of Verbum Numerus Ars and Cultus bookended by three keynote essays that touch in different ways on the theme of metadisciplinarity.
Paraulas de vertat e de profiech
Edizione del canzoniere di Guilhem de l’Olivier d'Arles
Guilhem de l’Olivier fu politico e funzionario ad Arles tra 1200 e 1230 e di lui ci sono rimaste 77 cobbole in lingua d’oc destinate al pubblico dei cavalieri urbani dei mercanti e di quelle famiglie che stavano sovvertendo la tradizionale struttura sociale della città rodaniana. Nel suo canzoniere trovano spazio la vita municipale e le esigenze di quella classe colta che guidava Arles attraverso complicate vicende istituzionali. Centro commerciale di primaria importanza infatti tra la fine del Cento e i primissimi decenni del Duecento quella che era stata una delle metropoli più fiorenti delle Gallie e una delle capitali dell’impero costantiniano si trasformò in comune consolare e poi podestarile. In ragione di ciò gruppi sociali fin lì esclusi dalla gestione della cosa pubblica si trovarono quasi improvvisamente proiettati ai vertici del potere; la città nel suo insieme fu scossa da tali sommovimenti. La produzione poetica di Guilhem si inserisce in questo complesso quadro: i suoi versi propongono una sintesi tra la cultura ufficiale feudal-cortese della fin’amor e l’inedito codice comunicativo che sorresse l’evoluzione istituzionale di Arles. Vero intellettuale municipale riutilizzando materiali collaudati il poeta propone un modello di civis che sia a un tempo attento al bene comune e avveduto negli interessi individuali. Il suo disegno educativo e formativo emerge con nettezza dall’analisi della sequenza con cui le cobbole sono state predisposte presumibilmente da Guilhem stesso il quale ci avrebbe così lasciato un ‘canzoniere d’autore’.
Folk Songs and Material Culture in Medieval Central Europe
Old Stones and New Music
This book takes a unique approach to the study of folk music in Central Europe. Through an analysis of this cultural tradition and of how words and ideas that were first introduced in Latin Antiquity became increasingly cultivated refined and established in the centuries that followed the volume also questions present-day studies of sound and its organization into the field of so-called ‘folk music’. In so doing it breaks down boundaries that separate historical studies from ethnomusicology and sheds light on what music continues to mean in daily life.
While the focus is primarily on Central European folk music and in particular on material found in the Hungarian archives the approach taken here also points to a fruitful comparative methodology that could be employed on a larger scale enabling scholars to consider broader chronological and geographical contexts.
Music, Liturgy, and the Veneration of Saints of the Medieval Irish Church in a European Context
This book opens up discussion on the liturgical music of medieval Ireland by approaching it from a multidisciplinary European perspective. In so doing it challenges received notions of an idiosyncratic ‘Celtic Rite’ and of the prevailing view that no manuscripts with music notation have survived from the medieval Irish Church. This is due largely to a preoccupation by earlier scholars with pre-Norman Gaelic culture to the neglect of wider networks of engagement between Ireland Britain and continental Europe. In adopting a more inclusive approach a different view emerges which demonstrates the diversity and international connectedness of Irish ecclesiastical culture throughout the long Middle Ages in both musico-liturgical and other respects.
The contributors represent a variety of specialisms including musicology liturgiology palaeography hagiology theology church history Celtic studies French studies and Latin. From this rich range of perspectives they investigate the evidence for Irish musical and liturgical practices from the earliest surviving sources with chant texts to later manuscripts with music notation as well as exploring the far-reaching cultural impact of the Irish church in medieval Europe through case studies of liturgical offices in honour of Irish saints and of saints traditionally associated with Ireland in different parts of Europe.