The calligraphy of medieval music / John Haines (editor).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haines, John (John Dickinson), editor.

Series:

Musicalia Medii Aevi ; 1.

Musicalia Medii Aevi ; 1

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Paleography, Musical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), music

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2011]

Language Note:

Fifteen contributions in English and 1 in French.

Summary:

The Calligraphy of Medieval Music treats the practical aspects of the book making and music writing trades in the Middle Ages. It covers most major regions of music writing in medieval Europe, from Sicily to England and from Spain to the eastern Germanic regions. Specific issues raised by the contributors include the pricking and ruling of books; the writing habits of scribes and their reliance on memory; the cultural influence of monastic orders such as the Carthusians; graphic variants between regional styles of music notation ranging from tenth-century Saint-Gall to sixteenth-century Cambrai; and the impact of print on late medieval notation. The volume opens with a few essays dealing with general issues such as page layout and manuscript production both in and out of medieval Europe. The second part of the book covers early music notations from the tenth and eleventh centuries, and the third part, the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.

Contents:

Part I, Writing medieval music: Toward a scientific palaeography of music / Michel Huglo ; The codicology of late medieval music manuscripts: some preliminary observations / Albert Derolez ; Manuscript production in Ethiopia: an ongoing practice / Getatchew Haile

Part II, Early medieval notations: Calligraphy and the study of neumatic notations / Susan Rankin ; La notation neumatique bretonne : manuscrits et centres de diffusion (Xe-XIIe siècle) / Jean-Luc Deuffic ; Dating neumes according to their morphology : the corpus of Toledo / Susana Zapke ; Music writing styles in medieval Italy / Giacomo Baroffio ; Liturgical books and book production in the thirteenth-century diocese of Chartres : the case of Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, vat. lat. 4756 / Margot Fassler ; Some characteristic neumes in North French, Sicilian and Italian chant manuscripts / David Hiley ; The earliest developments in square notation : twelfth-century Aquitaine / Michel Huglo

Part III, Later medieval notations: Notation in Carthusian liturgical books : preliminary remarks / Olivier Cullin ; Dominican and Franciscan books : similarities and differences between their notations / Michel Huglo ; On ligaturae and their properties : medieval music notation as esoteric writing / John Haines ; Interpreting the deluxe manuscript : exigencies of scribal practice and manuscript production in Machaut / Lawrence Earp ; The consequences of Ars Nova notation / Anna Maria Busse Berger ; The meeting of chant and polyphony in monophonic square notation from Cambrai Cathedral 1250-1550 / Barbara Haggh.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Chiefly papers from the conference of the same title held Sept. 21-23, 2007, at the University of Toronto.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

2-503-54049-X

9782503540498