Giovanni VARELLI
Notation and Liturgical Books in Late Carolingian Nonantola
(2017). Musical Notation and Liturgical Books in Late Carolingian Nonantola (Doctoral thesis)., Advisors : Susan Rankin
Résumé
The musical notation of the northern Italian Benedictine abbey of St Sylvester in Nonantola has hitherto been neglected by most scholarship on early music scripts, mainly because of the paucity of surviving music manuscripts and their limited geographical diffusion. A new study was needed in order to develop a full understanding of the abbey’s role and importance in the first phases of development of the writing of music in the early Middle Ages....
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