The 'Ars musica' Attributed to Magister Lambertus/Aristoteles
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Theory & Criticism, History & Criticism, Reference
| Author: | translatedbyKaren Desmond | ISBN: | 9781351546546 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | July 5, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | translatedbyKaren Desmond |
| ISBN: | 9781351546546 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | July 5, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
The treatise on musica plana and musica mensurabilis written by Lambertus/Aristoteles is our main witness to thirteenth-century musical thought in the decades between the treatises of Johannes de Garlandia and Franco of Cologne. Most treatises on music of this century - except for Franco�s treatise on musical notation - survive in only a single copy; Lambertus�s Ars musica, extant in five sources, is thus distinguished by a more substantial and long-lasting manuscript tradition. Unique in its ambitions, this treatise presents both the rudiments of the practice of liturgical chant and the principles of polyphonic notation in a dense and rigorous manner like few music treatises of its time - a conceptual framework characteristic of Parisian university culture in the thirteenth century. This new edition of Lambertus�s treatise is the first since Edmond de Coussemaker�s of 1864. Christian Meyer�s meticulous edition is displayed on facing pages with Karen Desmond�s English translation, and the treatise and translation are prefaced by a substantial introduction to the text and its author by Christian Meyer, translated by Barbara Haggh-Huglo.
The treatise on musica plana and musica mensurabilis written by Lambertus/Aristoteles is our main witness to thirteenth-century musical thought in the decades between the treatises of Johannes de Garlandia and Franco of Cologne. Most treatises on music of this century - except for Franco�s treatise on musical notation - survive in only a single copy; Lambertus�s Ars musica, extant in five sources, is thus distinguished by a more substantial and long-lasting manuscript tradition. Unique in its ambitions, this treatise presents both the rudiments of the practice of liturgical chant and the principles of polyphonic notation in a dense and rigorous manner like few music treatises of its time - a conceptual framework characteristic of Parisian university culture in the thirteenth century. This new edition of Lambertus�s treatise is the first since Edmond de Coussemaker�s of 1864. Christian Meyer�s meticulous edition is displayed on facing pages with Karen Desmond�s English translation, and the treatise and translation are prefaced by a substantial introduction to the text and its author by Christian Meyer, translated by Barbara Haggh-Huglo.
