City, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music

by Michael Scott Cuthbert (Editor), Sean Gallagher (Editor), Christoph Wolff (Editor)

Overview

Cultural landscape and geography have affected the history of Western music from its earliest manifestations to the present day. City, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music brings together essays by thirteen leading scholars that explore ways that space, urban life, landscape, and time transformed plainchant and other musical forms. In addressing a broad array of topics and regions—ranging from Beneventan chant in Italy and Dalmatia, to music theory in medieval France, to later transformations of chant in Iceland and Spain—these essays honor and build upon Thomas Forrest Kelly’s work in keeping cultural, geographic, and political factors close to the heart of the musicology of chant, early music, and beyond. Two essays complement Kelly’s scholarly and pedagogical interests by investigating the role of the city in premieres of works composed long after the end of the Middle Ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780964031746
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	11/11/2013
Series:	Harvard Publications in Music , #8
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Michael Scott Cuthbert is Homer A. Burnell Associate Professor of Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sean Gallagher is Visiting Associate Professor of Music at Boston University.

Christoph Wolff is Adams University Research Professor at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Part I First Nights: Early Music in Paris and Rome

Quantification in Medieval Paris and How It Changed Western Music Craig Wright 3

First Nights in Baroque Rome: Stefano Landi's Sant' Alessio Iain Fenlon 27

Berlioz's First Nights Peter Bloom 53

Part II The Musical Traditions and Influence of Benevento

Surge, Petre! Sets of Chants for St. Peter in Benevento, Peterborough, and Some Places in Between David Hiley 73

The Genealogy According to St. Luke in Beneventan Dalmatia: Does the Scribe Help the Singer? Katarina Livljanic 101

Beneventan Music and Gregorian Modality: Evidence of Modal Change in the Melodic Fund of the Old Beneventan Chant Matthew G. Peattie 123

Easter Vigil Canticles from Italy Andreas Pfisterer 145

Part III The Persistence of Chant and of "Medieval" Music

Echoes from the Periphery: Rask 98, Modal Change, and Oral Transmission in Seventeenth-Century Iceland Árni Heimir Ingólfsson 165

Reproducing the Middle Ages in Eighteenth-Century Toledo Susan Boynton 189

Part IV Origins of Forms and of Ideas

Ways of Singing Hexameter in Tenth-Century Europe Andreas Haug 207

Beyond the Boundaries of Roman-Frankish Chant: Alcuin's de laude Dei and Other Early Medieval Sources of Office Chants Susan Rankin 229

Part V French Music in the Middle Ages

Un fragment de tropaire aquitain pen connu (ParisBN, nouv. acq. lat. 2444, ff. 5-6) Marie-Noël Colette 265

The Topography of Music Theory in Paris, 900-1450 †Michel Huglo Barbara Haggh Leofranc Holford-Strevens 275

Notes on Contributors 335

Index of Manuscripts 341

General Index 345