On the website of the Abbey of Solesmes (which is celebrating its 1000th year since its foundation in 1010) we can read: In 1833, a young priest of the diocese of Le Mans, Dom Prosper Guéranger, undertook the restoration of benedictine monastic life on the site of an old priory at Solesmes, after forty years […]
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E-codices: Call for collaboration
Would you like a manuscript? You can propose which manuscript held in manuscript collections within Switzerland should be digitized this year. Deadline is 10th of July 2009 – Hurry up! e-codices – Call for Collaboration
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There is 13 more manuscripts available In the virtual Library Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG), among them important codices with neumatic notation including Cantatorium – the earliest complete extant musical manuscript in the world (922 – 925): Codex 338 – Computus, Breviarium, Graduale, Sakramentar (1050-1060) Graduale is on folios 36 – 317 Codex 359 – Cantatorium […]
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Great new source of information about chant manuscripts and also source of chant scores is available online on the site Gregofacsimil. Website is in French language. If you don’t understand French at all, you can try automated translations: English, German. On the page you can find introduction to problematic of restitution of chant melodies, some […]
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Ďalší hodnotný neumatický rukopis je dostupný online. Graduál z premonštrátskeho kláštora v Bellelay z dvanásteho storočia obsahuje na 362 stranách repertoár na celý liturgický rok. Notácia je diastematická s neumami na štvorliňajkovej osnove. Súčasťou stránky je aj rozsiahla štúdia rukopisu s indexom a možnosťou vyhľadávania. Jazykom stránky je francúzština.
Continue ReadingCodices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) – virtual Library
Abbey Library of St. Gallen (Switzerland) is available online! Or at least part of it. At the moment, you can study 144 medieval manuscripts on the Website Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG), among them important codices with neumatic notation including famous Codex Hartker: Codex 338 – Computus, Breviarium, Graduale, Sakramentar (1050-1060) Graduale is on folios 36 […]
Continue ReadingThe Schøyen Collection
Krásne ukážky zo súkromnej zbierky historických rukopisov sú k dispozícii na stránke The Schøyen Collection. Okrem ukážok z mnohých iných oblastí je medzi hudobnými rukopismi viacero reprodukcií chorálnej neumatickej notácie, napríklad St. Gallenskej, aquitánskej, beneventskej, germánskej (hufnagel), ostrihomskej a ďalších.
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