calvin m bower (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. Two volumes. Dec. cloth, no dj. (as issued). 575 pp in all. Edges of boards slightly bumped, else fine, with clean internals. Winner of the Palisca Prize by the American Musicological Society, 2017 These two volumes present an important and distinctive collection of Carolingian poetry, composed for the liturgy in the last quarter of the ninth century by Notker Balbulus ("the stammerer"), monk of St Gall (d. 912). Notker was not the first liturgical composer inspired by the Carolingian renaissance of learning to make new texts for elaborate Alleluia melodies, but hewas certainly the first to raise the sequence genre to a consistently refined linguistic and theological level, and to provide a repertory for the annual cycle of holy feasts. His collection circulated widely in Germanic areas inthe tenth and eleventh centuries, while some of his compositions - such as Sancti spiritus - became staples throughout Europe. Notker's Liber ymnorum has never before been edited with the melodies after which his sequences were fashioned and to which they were sung. Provided here is a full edition of Notker's dedicatory preface, followed by 49 sequences. Each sequence is presented with two musical notations ("Carolingian", in neumes, and pitched on staves), followed by translations and an extensive commentary. A full introduction provides a context for the work. Table of Contents Introduction: Part I. Notker on the Liber ymnorum Introduction: Part II. The Liber ymnorum as a Musical and Poetic Document The Manuscript Sources of the East Frankish Sequence and Notker's Liber ymnorum Editorial Principles Liber ymnorum Commentary Vocabulary used in the Liber ymnorum Bibliography Index of ymniand prosae by incipit Index of Melodies by title Index of Manuscripts Cited.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - First edition with the melodies of an immensely significant ninth-century liturgical masterpiece.

Condizione: Good. Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.; Small tear at spine of dust jacket repaired with tape, dust jacket is worn, creased and foxed along edges and corners, spine bumped at top-end, light foxing to side and bottom cut.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Second Printing. Scarce translation of Boethius's influential examination of the mathematics of harmony and music, based on his education in traditional Greek ideas, which he first expressed in Latin in the early sixth century. Hardcover, as pictured; the second printing. One of Yale's Music Theory Translation Series, edited by Claude V. Palisca. Scholar David Crook's copy, with his name & academic address mostly erased from front endsheet, some neat pencil notes (in three colors, but all erasable) & figures remain in the book. Book shows light wear, corners bumped & frayed, minor crease to spine, pen mark on front cover, page xix/xx with minor stain & light cockling; no jacket; xliv, blank, 205 pages; figures, appendixes, index. Size: Octavo.