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| Emma Hornby | Jan 10 2015, 05:03 PM Post #1 |
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A question that arrived by email:
There is a complete set of transcriptions of the pitched chants here (image 73 onwards). None of the rest can be transcribed. We can read whether the melodies go up or down, and are very happy to give you advice and information about how that works ![]() Some of the manuscripts are freely available online. e.g. A British Library fragment (this little bit of an antiphonary ended up at the beginning of a beautiful manuscript of Beatus of LiƩbana's Commentary on the Apocalypse One of the Toledo manuscripts - this is one of the three 13th-14th century manuscripts that have a rather different liturgical and musical tradition from all the other manuscripts (we usually call it "Tradition B" in the scholarship) One of the San Millan de la Cogolla manuscripts and also another of them And here there is a pdf of one of the beautiful royal Leon books - it has the liturgical canticles in, plus a book of hours, and there are musical materials near the back of the manuscript. And this one is the companion manuscript to the other royal book - they are very similar in content and presentation. I hope some of these beautiful images might be inspiring. Please ask if you want help navigating any of the materials to make enough sense of them to get inspired by them! |
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| Emma Hornby | Aug 5 2015, 08:19 PM Post #2 |
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Here is information about the pitched melodies that survive. |
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| FranciscoCarbonell | Aug 5 2015, 09:00 PM Post #3 |
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Thank you Dr. Hornby for all this resources. |
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| FranciscoCarbonell | Aug 5 2015, 09:03 PM Post #4 |
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If we choose to work from an "original" melody, does this melody has to be taken from a manuscript BEFORE the Cisnero's reform for being acceptable to the competition? Thank you. |
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| Emma Hornby | Aug 6 2015, 04:29 PM Post #5 |
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well, the Cisneros melodies aren't really Old Hispanic chant... so if you are going to use a pre-existing melody as the basis for your piece in one way or another, then I'd prefer it to be either one of the 20 ish transcribed chants, or else based on the outline of one of the thousands of other melodies that are preserved without pitch information. |
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