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John
Haines and Randall Rosenfeld, eds.
Music and Medieval
Manuscripts: Paleography and Performance.
Aldershot: Ashgate, June 2004.
c.472pp.
Hardback.
ISBN 075460991X.
Publisher's
recommended price $104.95/£59.95
The
interdisciplinary approach of Music
and Medieval Manuscripts is modeled on the work of the scholar
to whom the book is dedicated. Professor Andrew Hughes is recognized
internationally for his work on medieval manuscripts, combining the
areas of paleography, performance, liturgy and music.
All these areas of research are represented in this collection with an
emphasis on the continuity between the physical characteristics of
medieval manuscripts and their different uses. Albert Derolez provides
a landmark and controversial essay on the origins of pre-humanistic
script, while Margaret Bent proposes a new interpretation of a famous
passage from a fifteenth-century poem by Martin Le Franc. Timothy McGee
contributes an innovative essay on late-medieval music, text and
rhetoric. David Hiley discusses musical changes and variation in the
offices of a major saint’s feast, and Craig Wright presents an original
study of Guillaume Dufay. Jan Ziolkowski treats the topic of neumed
classics, an under-explored aspect of the history of medieval pedagogy
and the transmission of texts.
Contents: Introduction; Andrew Hughes in focus; Paleography: The script
reform of Petrarch: an Illusion?, Albert Derolez; Tres digiti scribunt:
a typology of late-antique and medieval pen grips, Randall Rosenfeld;
Erasures in 13th-century music, John Haines; Music: The musical stanzas
in Martin Le Franc's Le Champion des Dames, Margaret Bent; Women's
lament and the Neuming of the classics, Jan M. Ziolkowski; Baghdadi
rhythmic theories and practices in 12th-century Andalusia,George
Dimitri Sawa; Problems and possibilities in the performance of Trent
93's Polyphonic Introits, Brian E. Power; Music, rhetoric and the
emperor's new clothes,Timothy J. McGee; Drama: 15-century Yorkshire
drama: a hypothesis, Alexandra F. Johnston; Civic musicians in Wales
and the Marches, 1430-1642, David Klausner; A few odd visits: unusual
settings of the Visitatio sepulchri, Carol Symes; Liturgy: Dufay's
motet Balsamus et munda cera and the papal ceremony of the Agnus Dei,
Craig Wright; Origins and affiliations of the pre-sarum office for Anne
in the Stowe breviary, Sherry Reames; Early cycles of office chants for
the Feast of Mary Magdalene, David Hiley; The Kenilworth Missal
(Chichester cathedral, MS Med. 2), Richard Pfaff; Publications of
Andrew Hughes; Index.
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