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Auteur(s) : Rankin, Susan
Titre(s) : Writing sounds in Carolingian Europe [Texte imprimé] : the invention of musical notation / Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge)
Publication : Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXIII, 404 p.) : ill., fac-sim ; 29 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies in palaeography and codicology
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in palaeography and codicology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-390) and indexes. - Bibliogr. p. 370-390, index
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 description]
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Invention of musical notation
Sujet(s) : Notation musicale -- Europe de l'Ouest -- Moyen âge
Paléographie musicale
Neumes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108421409. - ISBN 1108421407. - ISBN 9781108368605 (erroné). - ISBN 9781108432603.
- ISBN 1108432603
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb456243294
Notice n° :
FRBNF45624329
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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 ; Appendix : Manuscripts with notations written in the
ninth century.
