Music discourse from classical to early modern times
Subtitle: editing and translating texts : papers given at the Twenty-sixth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 19-20 October 1990
By: edited by Maria Rika Maniates
Contributors: Maniates, Maria Rika, 1937-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng; urd
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Musicology -- Congresses; Editing -- Congresses; Music -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800 -- Translating -- Congresses; Music theory -- Early works to 1800 -- Translating -- Congresses
Description: The study of medieval and Renaissance music relies heavily on scholarly editions and translations of theoretical and liturgical sources to provide means of interpreting notation, style, and compositional processes. The editing of these texts and sources remains challenging for professional musicologists and social historians, as all musicologists must either translate or use translations of text for their own research.

The five essays in this collection deal with the problems inherent in editing and translating writings on such diverse subjects as music theory, harmonic science, composition, sociology, liturgy, and performance practice.

The papers represent a variety of disciplines, not only in respect to their fields of inquiry, but with respect to the study of music itself, which embraces musicology and ethnomusicology, historical and systematic research, philology and hermeneutics. Throughout is the common thread of the legacy of the ancient classics, in general and in particular, as a stable element in music discourse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Fidelities and infidelities in translating early music theory / Claude V. Palisca; title: Editing Adémar de Chabannes' Liturgy for the feast of Saint Martial / James Grier; title: Editing and translating medieval Arabic writings on music / George Dimtri Sawa; title: Preparing editions and translations of humanist treatises on music : Franchino Gaffurio's Theorica musice (1492) / Walter Kurt Kreyszig; title: The translator as interpreter : Euclid's Sectio canonis and Ptolemy's Harmonica in the Latin tradition / Alan C. Bowen and William R. Bowen