There is a contextual reason for interpreting the ending as 2 consecutive f’ notes: having the final note play twice is a typical feature in the close ending of an estampie. In theeight French royal estampies of c. 1300, the final note of the close ending is played twice in every one...
I am distancing myself from Solesmes’ work because I was brought up in it, so I felt its shortcomings on a very personal level. However, they did an enormous amount of scientific work from 1850 to 1950, and it is thanks to them that many aspects of the Gregorian chant are understood...
This surge may explain why liberal news sites are attacking Joni Ernst for expressing her completely Constitutional views on the Second Amendment. Sam Levine of the Huffington Postis just horrified by something Ms. Ernst said in 2012: Joni Ernst: My Gun Will Defend Me If Government Decides ‘My...
a church in the East Riding of Yorkshire, more than in any other medieval site. This is the third in a series of eight articles about the Minster’s medieval minstrels,surveying the musical life of 14thcentury England. This articleexplores the carved musicians of the west, north and south w...
(i.e.body)’. InThe Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Juliene, a section of MS Bodley 34, first quarter of the 13thcentury, “blod ant ban” refers to Christ’s body at his incarnation: “lihtest hider to us of heovenliche leomen ant nome blod ant ban i thet meare meiden” ...
intituled willie and peggie. To THE TUNE OF tarlton’s carroll.” It survives, not as an original broadside, but in a manuscript copy written in 1589 or 1590, 24 leaves of paper catalogued in the Bodleian Library as MS. Rawlinson poet. 185. There are many manuscripts which include broadsi...
MS LatinaI 77,VenicePsalter, folio 115r, c. 1270. Jerome of Moravia, Dominican friar and music theorist, wroteTractatus de Musicain Paris in c. 1280, for “the friars of our orders or of another”, to help them understand and perform ecclesiastical chant. In the short final chapter he ...
When the 11 year old King Edward VI succeeded in 1547 after the death of his father, Henry VIII, he, his Council, his Protectorate, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, enthusiastically hastened Protestant reform. There followed a campaign to rid national life of any signs of Cat...
example, thismaypossiblytell us something about the troubadour style of singing and its continuance in non-mensural notation,ifthis is the reason for the differential notation in BnF MS fr. 844. At the very least, “speak-singing” gives us a method of singing non-mensural songs where ...