Disiecta Membra Musicae: Studies in Musical Fragmentology

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

Disiecta Membra Musicae

Studies in Musical Fragmentology

Edited by: Giovanni Varelli

Volume 21 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717884

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Open Access

Although fragments from music manuscripts have occupied a place of considerable importance since the very early days of modern musicology, a collective, up-to-date, and comprehensive discussion of the various techniques and approaches for their study was lacking. On-line resources have also become increasingly crucial for the identification, study, and textual/musical reconstruction of fragmentary sources. Disiecta Membra Musicae. Studies in Musical Fragmentology aims at reviewing the state of the art in the study of medieval music fragments in Europe, the variety of methodologies for studying the repertory and its transmission, musical palaeography, codicology, liturgy, historical and cultural contexts, etc. This collection of essays provides an opportunity to reflect also on broader issues, such as the role of fragments in last century’s musicology, how fragmentary material shaped our conception of the written transmission of early European music, and how new fragments are being discovered in the digital age. Known fragments and new technology, new discoveries and traditional methodology alternate in this collection of essays, whose topics range from plainchant to ars nova and fifteenth- to sixteenth-century polyphony.

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Giovanni Varelli, University of Oxford, UK.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Preface Giovanni Varelli Open Access Download PDF	1
Overview
Polyphonic Fragments: Destruction, Recovery, Reconstruction Margaret Bent Open Access Download PDF	9
Models
Processional Chants in the Early Medieval Period: The Lesson of Fragments Susan Rankin Open Access Download PDF	39
Some Medieval Relics of Saints’ Plainchant Offices David Hiley Open Access Download PDF	77
Trails
Music Fragments from Slovenia: Towards a Reconstruction of the Medieval Plainchant Manuscript Production Jurij Snoj Open Access Download PDF	97
Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century in Aragon: Reassessing a Panorama of Fragmentary Sources David Catalunya Open Access Download PDF	117
Fragments of Local Polyphony in Late Medieval Central Europe: Towards a Semiotic Interpretation of Musical Sources Paweł Gancarczyk Open Access Download PDF	165
Receivers
Make Do and Mend: Reworking Liturgical Parchment Manuscripts in Post-Reformation Sweden Sanna Raninen Open Access Download PDF	185
The Aesthetics of Fragments: Reading Pastedowns in Context or, Late Medieval Bookbinders, Readers, and Their Choices Karl Kügle Open Access Download PDF	205
Representations
A Collection of Fragments, or a Fragment of a Collection? The Musical Appendix of A-Wn Cod. 5094 Reinhard Strohm Open Access Download PDF	241
The Unexpected Song: An Early Italian Vernacular Poem, a Neumatic Notation, and How to Detect Their Interrelationships in the Ravenna Charter Daniele Sabaino Open Access Download PDF	263
Processes
Fragmenta Manuscriptorum Musicalium Hungariae Mediaevalis: From Traditional Methodologies Towards a Digital Corpus Zsuzsa Czagány Open Access Download PDF	301
Restoration, Reconstruction, and Revisionism: Altering Our Virtual Perception of Damaged Manuscripts Julia Craig-McFeely Open Access Download PDF	323
Indexes
Index of Manuscripts and Fragments Open Access Download PDF	369
Index of Chants and Compositions Open Access Download PDF	375
General Index Open Access Download PDF	383

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers in Manuscript Studies, Musicology, History, Liturgical Studies, Latin Philology, Digital Humanities.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 398
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 24
- Coloured Illustrations: 94
- Tables: 32
Keywords: Mediaeval music; fragments; materiality; liturgy

eBook

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110717884

Hardcover

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110717228