The Origins of Western Notation
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The Origins of Western Notation

  1. 424 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Origins of Western Notation

About this book

Modern music notation developed out of the so-called square notation and this out of the Latin neumes. The question of where these neumes came from has long been the subject of scholarly debate. As the author demonstrated in his three-volume Universale Neumenkunde published in German in 1970, there is a very close relationship between the Paleo-Byzantine notation and the Latin neumes. Although the study aroused a great deal of dispute, more recent studies have revealed that the relevance of the Neumenkunde remains essentially unchallenged after 40 years. Those path-breaking research results on the relationship of the Greek and Latin notational systems are now available for the first time in a completely revised and augmented English translation.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Musical Examples
  6. Tables
  7. Charts
  8. Manuscript Sigla
  9. Chapter I: The Relationship between Byzantine and Latin Neumes (Introduction to the Problem)
  10. Chapter II: Classification of the Latin Neumes
  11. Chapter III: The Neumae Simplices and the Tonoi Haploi
  12. Chapter IV: The Neumae Compositae and the Tonoi Synthetoi
  13. Chapter V: Byzantine Parellels to the Latin Ornamental Neumes
  14. Chapter VI: The Notae Semivocales and the Hemiphona
  15. Chapter VII: The Litterae Significativae and the Byzantine Grammata
  16. Chapter VIII: The Names of the Latin Neumes
  17. Chapter IX: Latin Neumes and Ekphonetic Notation
  18. Chapter X: The Origin of Latin Chant Notation
  19. Chapter XI: The Byzantine Origin of the Latin Dodekaechos
  20. Chapter XII: Notker’s Ellinici Fratres
  21. Chapter XIII: St. Gall: Centre for the cultivation of an artistically nuanced ornamented chant tradition
  22. Identical and corresponding latin, byzantine and slavic neumes, figures and formulas
  23. Collations of Latin Neumatic Notations
  24. Appendix
  25. Abbreviations
  26. Selected Bibliography
  27. Index

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