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Byzantine Neumes. A New Introduction to the Middle Byzantine Musical Notation. 9788763531580

Byzantine Neumes. A New Introduction to the Middle Byzantine Musical Notation

Museum Tusculanum Press. 2011

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  • EAN: 9788763531580
  • ISBN: 978-87-635-3158-0
  • Editorial: Museum Tusculanum Press
  • Fecha de edición: 2011
  • Encuadernación: Cartoné con sobrecubierta
  • Dimensiones: 22x30
  • Idioma: Inglés
  • Nº páginas: 136

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The medieval chant of Byzantium is but little-known, although a large body of music has been preserved in neumatic notation. Coming into use about AD 1150, the Middle Byzantine musical notation is the earliest notational type of Byzantium that can be transcribed with reasonable accuracy; the musical content of manuscripts earlier than c. 1150 can only be fully understood through Middle Byzantine versions.

The book discusses such topics as chant transmission before the neumes, the varieties of Byzantine musical notations, words and music in Byzantine chant, Byzantine and Western neumatic notations, modes, melody and intervals, but its purpose above all is to serve as a key to the deciphering of melodies written in the Middle Byzantine notation. In addition, the book presents a panorama of the styles of Byzantine chant from simple psalmody to melismatic chant and it is accompanied by a set of specimens of musical manuscripts of known date and provenance. The text includes more than sixty musical examples and is provided with an annotated bibliography.

CONTENIDO:

Foreword
Preface
Introduction

I - The chant texts
Word and music
The language of the chanted texts
Accents and music
Syntax and music
Automelon - Proshomoion
Singing in syllables

II - Preliminary remarks on the Byzantine notations
Chant transmission before the neumes
Byzantine and Western neumatic notations
The unknown origins of Byzantine notations
From 'adiastematic' to'diastematic'
The problem of 'scales' and tuning

III - The varieties of Byzantine musical notations
Lectionary or 'ekphonetic' notation
Theta notation
Coislin and Chartres notations
'Middle Byzantine' or 'Round' notation
The 'New Method' or 'Chrysanthine notation'

IV - Transcription of the Middle Byzantine notation
The MMB transcription system
Other transcription systems
van Biezen
Raasted
Stathis
The transcription system used in this book

V - The signs of the Middle Byzantine notation
The íson
Bodies and spirits
Dynamic quality and phrasing
Conspectus of the interval signs
Additional interval signs
Rules for the combination of signs
Combination of signs, tables
'Small' interval signs (the 'little ison')
Confirmatory signs
The functions of the subsidiary signs
Stock and frequency of subsidiary signs
Rhythm and rhythmic signs
Conspectus of the rhythmic signs
Diplé, dýo, apóstrophoi, and krátema
Klásma or tzákisma
Gorgón ('quick') and argón ('slow')
Staurós ('cross')
Conspectus of the phrasing signs and group signs
Apóderma
Bareía
Píasma
Xerón klásma
Kýlisma
Thematismós
Parakletiké
Tromikón
Psephistón
The seísma
The terminology of the subsidiary signs
Variant neumations ('red variants')
Palaeographical distinctions
Regional and individual neume styles?
Map (Locations of manuscripts)

VI - Modes, melody and intervals
The októechos
Names and numbering of the modes
Modality
The modal signatures
Main signatures (MSi)
The echémata ('Intonations')
Conspectus of modal signatures and intonations
Expanded intonations
Apechémata ('sounding-off', 'tails')
Medial signatures (MeSi)
Transposition
Modulation
Multiple medial signatures
Modulation signs
Énarxis
Phthoraí
Conspectus of the phthoraí
Chromaticism

VII - The Byzantine chant styles
Simple Psalmody
Autómelon/Proshómoion singing
The Heirmológion
The Sticherárion
The Psaltikón
The Asmatikón
The kalophonic styles

Appendix
Specimens of manuscripts with known dates and provenances

Bibliography and abbreviations
Index of proper names
Index of manuscripts
Index of neumes and principal subjects
Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae - Descriptive catalogue



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