Nota Bene: Reading Classics and Writing Melodies in the Early Middle Ages

Author:   Jan M Ziolkowski ,  Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin Jan M Ziolkowski (Harvard University)
Publisher:   Brepols N.V.
Volume:   7
ISBN:  

9782503525341


Pages:   377
Publication Date:   09 May 2007
Format:   Paperback
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Nota Bene: Reading Classics and Writing Melodies in the Early Middle Ages


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Nota Bene explores a little-known juxtaposition of verbal text and musical notation in the Middle Ages. This particular intersection deserves attention from those interested in music, the reception of classical Latin literature, the history of education, and the development of punctuation. Between the late tenth century and the late twelfth century, the musical notation known as neumes was provided in dozens of manuscripts for, among other texts, a number of Horace's Odes as well as for sections of epics by Lucan, Statius, and Vergil. These materials constitute a paradoxical corpus of classical poems in plainchant that complicates our views of both how students learned Latin and what was being sung in an era most often associated with Gregorian chant. The book wrestles first with the literary-historical puzzle of why certain passages and not others were neumed and later with the ethnomusicological riddles of how, where, when, and by whom the passages were sung.

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Author:   Jan M Ziolkowski ,  Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin Jan M Ziolkowski (Harvard University)
Publisher:   Brepols N.V.
Imprint:   Brepols N.V.
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   0.708kg
ISBN:  

9782503525341


ISBN 10:   2503525342
Pages:   377
Publication Date:   09 May 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.
Language:   English & Latin

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