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| LithaEfthymiou | Dec 8 2014, 10:41 AM Post #1 |
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One of the first questions I asked when I joined the project team as the PhD composer was, although the notation of the Old Hispanic chant is non-pitch readable, is there anything about the neume shapes that can be deciphered? |
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| Elsa De Luca | Dec 9 2014, 12:47 PM Post #2 |
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Hispanic Vertical notation belonging to the ‘gestural’ type means that the meaning is usually carried at the end of a pen-stroke, and a change of direction of the pen-stroke indicates another pitch. The inclination of the pen-stroke tells us if the melody goes up or down. We never know for sure what the pitch of the first note of a neume is, therefore we call it neutral. We can also isolate palaeographical features that seem to be used purposefully throughout the Old Hispanic manuscripts (kind of connection between two notes, hooks, ticks etc.) This strongly suggest those features had a musical meaning, however we cannot be sure about what it was! Edited by Elsa De Luca, Dec 11 2014, 12:34 PM.
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