Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe

Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe

The Invention of Musical Notation

Rankin, Susan (University of Cambridge)

Cambridge University Press

10/2018

400

Dura

Inglês

9781108421409

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