Cantus scriptus: Technologies of Medieval Song : : The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age; 2010 Symposium / / ed. by Emma Dillon, Lynn Ransom.

This volume gathers six essays from papers presented at the 3rd Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on November 19-20, 2010. The essays explore both the technology of inscribed musical expression in the Middle Ages—especially in regard to notation—and the role that modern digital technologies pl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (177 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Capturing Sounds: The Notation of Language
  • Music Notation, Metaphor, and the Reification of Late- Medieval Song
  • Technologies of Un-Notated Transmission: Trecento Song as Literature in One Early Sixteenth-Century Poetic Anthology
  • Monks, Manuscripts, and Other Peer-to-Peer Song Sharing Networks of the Middle Ages
  • From Perfect to Preposterous: How Digital Restoration Can Both Help and Hinder Our Reading of Damaged Sources
  • Quill and Pixel: Chansonniers and Their Modern Readers
  • List of Contributors
  • Index