The origins of western notation
By: Constantin Floros ; revised and translated by Neil Moran with a report on The reception of the Universale Neumenkunde, 1970-2010
Contributors: Moran, Neil K.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9783631615591
Subjects: Neumes; Musical notation
Work titles: Universale Neumenkunde
Description: Modern music notation developed out of the so-called square notation and this out of the Latin neumes. The question of where these neumes came from has long been the subject of scholarly debate. As the author demonstrated in his three-volume Universale Neumenkunde published in German in 1970, there is a very close relationship between the Paleo-Byzantine notation and the Latin neumes. Although the study aroused a great deal of dispute, more recent studies have revealed that the relevance of the Neumenkunde remains essentially unchallenged after 40 years. Those path-breaking research results on the relationship of the Greek and Latin notational systems are now available for the first time in a completely revised and augmented English translation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The relationship between Byzantine and Latin neumes; title: Classification of the Latin neumes; title: The neumae simplices and the tonoi haploi; title: The neumae compositae and the tonoi synthetoi; title: Byzantine parallels to the Latin ornamental neumes; title: The notae semivocales and the hemiphona introduction; title: The Litterae significativae and the Byzantine grammata; title: The names of the Latin neumes; title: The origin of Latin chant notation; title: The Byzantine origin of the Latin Dodekaechos; title: Notker's Ellinici fratres; title: St. Gall : centre for the cultivation of an artistically nuanced ornamented chant tradition   identical and corresponding Latin, Byzantine and Slavic neumes, figures and formula.