1st Edition
Gregorian and Old Roman Eighth-mode Tracts A Case Study in the Transmission of Western Chant
By Emma Hornby
Copyright 2002
420 Pages
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Routledge
This title was first published in 2002: This text uses detailed analysis of the eigth-mode tracts in addressing some of the still unresolved questions of chant scholarship. The first question is that of the nature of the relationship between Old Roman and Gregorian chant, the second, of the relationship between oral and written modes of transmission in the ecclesiastical culture of the Middle... Read more
1 Introduction 2 The Primary Evidence 3 Analysis of the Eighth-Mode Tracts 4 Methods of Transmission of the Early Chant Tradition 5 The Medieval Understanding of the Eighth-Mode Tracts I: Characteristics of the Notated Sources and Theoretical Writing 6 The Medieval Understanding of the Eighth-Mode Tracts II: Tract Composition in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries 7 Questions of Chronology 8 Conclusions
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Hornby, Emma
