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Writing sounds in Carolingian Europe : the invention of musical notation / Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML174 .R26 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rankin, Susan, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in palaeography and codicology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical notation--History--To 1500.
- Musical notation.
- Paleography, Musical.
- Music--500-1400--Manuscripts.
- Music.
- Neumes.
- Music--Manuscripts.
- Manuscripts.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 404 pages : illustrations, music, facsimiles ; 29 cm.
- Other Title:
- Invention of musical notation
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Musical notation has not always existed: in the West, musical traditions have often depended on transmission from mouth to ear, and ear to mouth. Although the Ancient Greeks had a form of musical notation, it was not passed on to the medieval Latin West. This comprehensive study investigates the breadth of use of musical notation in Carolingian Europe, including many examples previously unknown in studies of notation, to deliver a crucial foundational model for the understanding of later Western notations. An overview of the study of neumatic notations from the French monastic scholar Dom Jean Mabillon (1632-1707) up to the present day precedes an examination of the function and potential of writing in support of a musical practice which continued to depend on trained memory. Later chapters examine passages of notation to reveal those ways in which scripts were shaped by contemporary rationalizations of musical sound. Finally, the new scripts are situated in the cultural and social contexts in which they emerged.-- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Part I, Musical literacy. Writing music ; Paleographical study of neumatic notations (from 1681 to the present) ; Music notations 800-900 : the evidence
- Part II, Music scripts. Graphic techniques and strategies ; Frankish scripts ; Lotharingian and Breto scripts ; Paleofrankish script ; Music scripts : conclusions
- Part III, Writing sound. Signs and meaning ; Writing music : accents ; The Carolingian invention of music writing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-390) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781108421409
- 1108421407
- OCLC:
- 993134430
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