90
Nov. '78
B. Rosenthal
$26.50
Double leaf manuscript to neumes
written on vellum - 21 lines to the page
Gothic. Northern Europe - probably 12-13th C
Germany (C 1200)
Noted Missal? Breviary to neumes
the 4 simplest neumes were: punctum, virger, clivis and
podetus: . 1 / / The 1st 2 such indicate a single Tome,
the punctuation normally a shorter one than the virger.
Each of the latter 2 signs represents a pair of Tomes which
discard in the clivis + ascend in the podatus.
late 12th C - nearly all the styles of neume writing
had ecolved into sqare notation on a staff.
Neumes are not found in any manuscript before
the 9th C.
oratorical - neumes used only on a general remider
to the singer of the comes of the melody. They give no idea of the actual intervals of teh melody.
distematic - in this writing neumes are carefully
"heighted", ie placed at various distances from an
imaginary line representing a given pitch, according
to their relationship to that line.
ho=homo XV qu=quando q=qui
ht=habet una=vestra XII apl's=apostolus
ihu=Jheus Spc=spiritus pcca=peccata
g=ergo aq=aquse unm=vestum
gra=gratia XV loh'es=Johannes l3=sed
recent gothic 7 (et) capital I to ball on the side
(ie >1200)
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