IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1211: Composing and Writing Polyphonic Music in Medieval Italy
Wednesday 13 July 2005, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
---|---|
Organiser: | Oliver Huck, Philosophische Fakultät, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena |
Moderator/Chair: | Elske Herrmann, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford |
Paper 1211-a | Processes of Writing in an 'Oral' Tradition: Corrections in the Polyphonic Compositions from the Patriarchy of Aquileia (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music |
Paper 1211-b | Ars and Usus in the Trecento Madrigal (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music |
Paper 1211-c | Francesco Landini: The Blind Composer and his Scribes (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music |
Abstract | In contrast to music of the so-called French 'ars antiqua' and 'ars nova', the sources of medieval Italian polyphony have been regarded less as products of artificial composition but rather as glimpses of an unwritten tradition of ad hoc-practices. Revisiting the scribal process in the manuscripts and relating the so-called 'polifonia primitiva', the earliest madrigals and the music of the blind organist Francesco Landini to the theoretical framework of the 'teoria di gardo', an intricate relation between composition and notation in these Italian repertories will be found, too. |