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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Floros, Constantin (Author)
Other Authors: Moran, Neil K. (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: New York : Peter Lang, 2011.
Subjects:
Neumes.
Musical notation.
Musique > Notation.
MUSIC > General.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
Musical notation
Neumes
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The relationship between Byzantine and Latin neumes
  • Classification of the Latin neumes
  • The neumae simplices and the tonoi haploi
  • The neumae compositae and the tonoi synthetoi
  • Byzantine parallels to the Latin ornamental neumes
  • The notae semivocales and the hemiphona
  • The Litterae significativae and the Byzantine grammata
  • The names of the Latin neumes
  • Latin nuemes and Ekphonetic notation
  • The origin of Latin chant notation
  • The Byzantine origin of the Latin Dodekaechos
  • Notker's Ellinici fratres
  • St. Gall : centre for the cultivation of an artistically nuanced ornamented chant tradition
  • Identical and corresponding Latin, Byzantine and Slavic neumes, figures and formulas
  • History of the reception of the Universale Neumenkunde, 1970-2010
  • Forty Years after Constantin Floros' Universale Neumenkunde, some insights / Luca Ricossa.

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