Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians - Rilegato

Levy, Kenneth

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0691017336 ISBN 13: 9780691017334

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

A world-renowned scholar of plainchant, Kenneth Levy has spent a portion of his career investigating the nature and ramifications of this repertory's shift from an oral tradition to the written versions dating to the tenth century. In Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians, which represents the culmination of his research, Levy seeks to change long-held perceptions about certain crucial stages of the evolution and dissemination of the old corpus of plainchant--most notably the assumption that such a large and complex repertory could have become and remained fixed for over a century while still an oral tradition. Levy portrays the promulgation of an authoritative body of plainchant during the reign of Charlemagne by clearly differentiating between actual evidence, hypotheses, and received ideas.

How many traditions of oral chant existed before the tenth century? Among the variations noted in written chant, can one point to a single version as being older or more authentic than the others? What precursors might there have been to the notational system used in all the surviving manuscripts, where the notational system seems fully formed and mature? In answering questions that have long vexed many scholars of Gregorian chant's early history, Levy offers fresh explanations of such topics as the origin of Latin neumes, the shifting relationships between memory and early notations, and the puzzling differences among the first surviving neume-species from the tenth century, which have until now impeded a critical restoration of the Carolingian musical forms.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Kenneth Levy is Scheide Professor of Music History Emeritus at Princeton University. He is well known for his work in medieval music, particularly Byzantine and Latin plainchant. He is the author of Music: A Listener's Introduction.

Contenuti:

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
Ch. 1	From Gregory to the Ottonians	3
Ch. 2	A Gregorian Processional Antiphon	19
Ch. 3	Toledo, Rome, and the Legacy of Gaul	31
Ch. 4	Charlemagne's Archetype of Gregorian Chant	82
Ch. 5	On the Origin of Neumes	109
Ch. 6	On Gregorian Orality	141
Ch. 7	Abbot Helisachar's Antiphoner	178
Ch. 8	Aurelian's Use of Neumes	187
Ch. 9	Plainchant before Neumes	195
Ch. 10	A Carolingian Visual Model	214
Ch. 11	Memory, Neumes, and Square Notations	253
	Index	267

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0691017336
• ISBN 13: 9780691017334
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 271