History and Theory of polyphonic Music Notation in the Middle Ages

History and Theory of polyphonic Music Notation in the Middle Ages
(alternating with History of music of Christian rites)
(Daniele Sabaino)
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Problems of tradition, notation, transcription and performance practice in 12 - and 13 -century Parisian
polyphony.
The course, which will be held in seminar form, intend to investigate the notational evolution of Parisian
polyphony in relation to its formal genres.
Bibliography:
1. Basic readings:
W. APEL, La notazione della musica polifonica dal X al XVII secolo, trad. it. a cura di P. Neonato Firenze,
Sansoni, 1984, pp. 255-316;
C. W RIGHT, Music and Ceremony at Notre-Dame of Paris, 500–1550, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 1989, pp. 235-272.
2. Edition and essays:
W. W AITE, The Rhythm of the Twelfth Century Polyphony, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1954 (rist.
Wesport, Greenwood 1973);
H.H. EGGEBRECHT, Organum purum, in Musikalische Edition im Wandel des historischen Bewusstseins,
hrsg. von T.G. Georgiades, Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1971, pp. 93-112;
E.H. ROESNER, The Performance of Parisian Organum, in “Early Music”, 7, 1979, pp. 174-189;
J. Yudkin, The Copula according to Johannes de Garlandia, in “Musica Disciplina”, 34, 1980, pp. 67-84;
E.H. ROESNER, The Problem of Chronology in the Transmission of Organum Duplum, in Music in Medieval
and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts, ed. by I. Fenlon, Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1981, pp. 365-399;
E.H. ROESNER, Johannes de Garlandia on “Organum in speciali”, in “Early Music History”, II, 1982, pp.
129-160;
J. YUDKIN, The Rhythm of Organum Purum, in “Journal of Musicology”, 2, 1983, pp. 355-376;
The Parisian Two-Part Organa: The Complete Comparative Edition, ed. by H. Tischler, Stuyvesant,
Pendragon Press, 1988;
C.M. ATKINSON, Franco of Cologne on the Rhythm of Organum Purum, in “Early Music History”, 9, 1990,
pp. 1-26;
E.H. ROESNER, The Emergence of Musica mensurabilis, in Studies in Musical Sources and Style: Essays
in Honor of Jan La Rue, ed. by E.K. Wolf and E.H. Roesner, Madison, A-R Editions, 1990, pp. 41-44;
N.E. SMITH, The Notation of Fractio Modi, in Studies in Medieval Music: Festschrift for Ernest H. Sanders,
ed. by P. M. Lefferts and L. L. Perkins (= “Current musicology”, 47, 1990), pp. 283-303;
Les Quadrupla et Tripla de Paris, pub. par E.H. Roesner, Paris, L’Oiseau-Lyre, 1993 (“Le Magnus Liber
Organi de Notre-Dame de Paris”, 1);
Les Clausulae a deux voix du Manuscrit de Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, Pluteus 29.1, pub.
par R. A. Baltzer, Paris, L’Oiseau-Lyre, 1995 (“Le Magnus Liber Organi de Notre-Dame de Paris”, 5);
Les Organa à deux voix du manuscrit de Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 1099
Helmst., pub. par T.B. Payne, Paris, L’Oiseau-Lyre, 1997 (“Le Magnus Liber Organi de Notre-Dame de
Paris”, 6/1-2);
Les Organa à deux voix pour la Messe (de Noël à la fête de Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul) du manuscrit de
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Plut. 29.1, pub. par M. Everist, Paris, L’Oiseau-Lyre, 2001
(“Le Magnus Liber Organi de Notre-Dame de Paris”, 3);
E.H. SANDERS, The notation of Notre-Dame “organa tripla” and “quadrupla” , in Le notazioni della polifonia
vocale dei secoli IX-XVII, a cura di M. Caraci Vela, D. Sabaino e S. Aresi, Pisa, ETS, 2008, pp. 57-119.
Further readings will be provided during the meetings.
Students willing to attend the course must have a previous basic knowledge of medieval music notation.
As in the CFU-system lesson attendance integral to the training, students not attending classes must arrange
further readings with the teacher.