13. Giulia Gabrielli: Cantus fractus in South Tyrol
Channel: SMNF cz
Date: 23/12/2020

Cantus Fractus 2020 conference
http://www.smnf.cz/en/news/Virtual-conference-Rhythm-in-Music-and-the-Arts-in-the-Late-Middle-Ages/

Cantus fractus in South Tyrol

Giulia Gabrielli, University of Bolzano




South Tyrol, the German-speaking region in Northern Italy at the border with Austria, has always represented a 'bridge' between the Germanic 'North' and the Mediterranean 'South'. Such cultural influences clearly emerge in the analysis of its musical sources. Until now, most of the cantus planus and cantus fractus sources found in South Tyrol has never been catalogued or indexed, lying unknown in various archives and libraries of the region. A research project carried out in the last 12 years by the University of Bolzano brought to light a considerable corpus of both manuscript and printed musical sources of great interest. Among them, a few sources contain some significant examples of cantus fractus, mainly Credo chants, cantiones and tropes.
The paper will thus present the first survey of the cantus fractus repertory in the medieval musical-liturgical sources from South Tyrol.