Un ami m'a soufflé à l'oreille une réflexion au tour de l'importance pour le chant grégorien de la pratique liturgique. Je souhaite la partager avec vous. Bonne lecture!
Si la multiplicité des expérimentations dans le domaine du chant grégorien peut
Read more…I'm glad to announce thay my book about Epiphany liturgical drama
L'Officium Stellae. Studio comparativo e trascrizione dei testimoni liturgico-musicali, Firenze, Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo, La Tradizione Musicale, Studi e testi, 17, 2016
has bee
Read more…La Walters Art Gallery Library de Baltimore (MD) est très célèbre pour son grand nombre de livres d'heures richement décorés. Parmi eux, nous trouvons le manuscrit W 88, qui est d'après le catalogue de la bibliothèque, un livre d'heure datant du débu
Read more…Several performers of medieval music use women's voices where men's voices were certainly or probably intended; others vocalise untexted parts where instruments often seem more appropriate; others use (too) low pitches which results in sombre timbres
Read more…I would very much like to KNOW more exactly, on which liturgical occasions and in which places larger chant ensembles and boys voices were used: What evidence and from what times do we actually have for this? From what I have read it seems that there
Read more…I think that the most LIKELY significance of the quilisma (= tremula) is a vibrato, probably connected with a portamento. I think it is rather unlikely that it signifies some sort of trill or tremolo, as the abundance of quilismas in manuscripts woul
Read more…I think that we should found a center for the study and performance of Gregorian chant in Reichenau
(http://www.reichenau-tourismus.de/): St. Gall and the Campus Galli of Messkirch (http://www.campus-galli.de/) are not far and will probably also prov
Read more…There's a big gap in my early music record collection: Troubadours & Trouvères. I have heard a number of recordings, but I bought only a few, and not even these fulfill in EVERY respect what I would regard as good historically informed performance pr
Read more…I have long been wondering if the portative organ might not have been used more often for accompanying secular as well as sacred polyphony in the middle ages - perhaps even as early as the 13th century (second half?): it blends VERY well with voices.
Read more…A Handbook for historical performance practice(s) of Western chant traditions should be edited:
It should make clear what we know for CERTAIN about historical performance practices in Western chant traditions throughout the centuries (c. 800-c.1800) a
I remember reading a source information that there was at least one known occasion when the voice(s) of a boy or boys was/were used for Ars nova motets: it surprised me. Does anyone know more if/when/where
boys were used in Ars nova/subtilior polypho
Read more…The informations concerning performance practice(s) of medieval music are still scattered in a multitude of textual, notational and iconographical sources. Quite a number of such sources have not even been translated from their original language into
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