Susan Rankin

Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1337g
• ISBN-13: 9781108421409
• ISBN-10: 1108421407
• Artikelnr.: 53020781

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.