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Ademarus Cabannensis monachus et musicus
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ISBN: 9782503523958 2503523951 Year: 2018 Volume: 7 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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Adémar de Chabannes (989-1034), monk at the abbey of Saint Cybard in Angoulême, historian, homilist, polemicist and musician extraordinaire, left behind some 451 folios of music with notation written in his own hand. These documents constitute the earliest identifiable musical autographs by several centuries. They provide essential data for musical practices at Saint Martial, where Adémar contributed to their production, and for Adémar’s personal and professional involvement in those practices. They also attest the introduction to the scriptorium at Saint Martial by Adémar of accurately heighting the neumes (symbols of musical notation) above the text to which the melody is sung. Each pitch, therefore, receives a distinct position along the vertical axis of writing. This procedure shows the exact musical interval between notes, and expedites the reading and learning of the melodies. It remains today the standard convention for indicating pitch in modern Western notation. The importance of this technique is impossible to overstate because Western music and its notation place higher importance on pitch than on many other elements, such as rhythm and timbre. Therefore heighting, the device by which notation precisely communicates pitch, holds a central place in the development of the musical language. In contrast, most of the notational dialects that appear in early music manuscripts from the medieval West use, to a greater or lesser degree, the vertical placement of signs to indicate melodic direction rather than pitch. After an overview of Adémar’s biography and musical activities, the study examines in detail the four surviving manuscripts in which Adémar inscribed musical notation, and then the notation itself. The study closes with a consideration of Adémar’s contributions to musical literacy through his introduction of accurate heighting.

Een muziekgeschiedenis der Nederlanden
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ISBN: 9053564888 9028930000 9789028930001 9789053564882 Year: 2001 Publisher: Kapellen Pelckmans

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België. --- Nederland. --- Music --- Musique --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism. --- History --- muziekgeschiedenis --- Belgium --- Netherlands --- 783.1 --- Cabaret --- Folk --- Geschiedenis --- Kerstliederen --- Kunst --- Middeleeuwen --- Muziek --- Muziekgeschiedenis --- Opera --- Polyfonie --- Populaire muziek --- Psalmen --- Rederijkers --- Reformatie --- Renaissance --- Sax, Adolphe --- Volksliederen --- Wereldmuziek --- 784.2 --- 784.3 --- 784 --- Barok --- Classicisme --- Hedendaagse muziek --- Rococo --- Romantiek --- Academic collection --- 520 --- #KVHA:Muziekgeschiedenis; Nederlanden --- #KVHA:Muziek; Nederlanden --- 78 <09> <491.9> --- 78 <09> --- 628 Muziek --- #A0204A --- 78 <09> Muziekgeschiedenis --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Muziekgeschiedenis ; Middeleeuwen --- Muziekgeschiedenis 15e en 16e eeuw --- Geschiedenis van tijdperken ; afzonderlijk --- Algemene muziekgeschiedenis --- Muziekgeschiedenis--De Nederlanden --- 78.21 --- 19e eeuw --- 20e eeuw --- Nederland --- België --- History of the Low Countries --- muzikale vorming --- Vietnam --- Zuid-Afrika --- Kust --- Schilderkunst --- Tekenkunst --- Literatuur --- Music - Belgium - Flanders - History and criticism --- Music - Netherlands - History and criticism --- Musique - Belgique - Flandre - Histoire et critique --- Musique - Pays-Bas - Histoire et critique --- Nederlanden

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