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I do hope I'm posting this correctly!  So, about me.  I am a 6th-year doctoral student in musicology at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA), currently completing a dissertation on the creation and evolution of the semiminim, ca. 1350-1450.  I am fascinated by all things notation, and in my work I am untangling on the one hand the theoretical debates over the term, the various attempts to rename the unit, and how this duration has been prescribed in treatises, and on the other hand what the repertory shows us was being done in practice, graphically and rhythmically.  I enjoy other aspects of notation, in particular uniquely created note forms, ars subtilior, proportions, canons, etc.  I a a performer, specializing in recorders and other winds (crumhorn, some double reeds), some viola da gamba, percussion, and voice, and for modern music I specialize in trumpet and horn. I also have a deep interest in 20th/21st-century music, particularly pop, jazz, and cultural studies.

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I'm a singer and a PhD student at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent, which has a doctoral research programme for musicians. The subject of my research is different techniques of oral (not to say "improvised") polyphony that where applied to chant, know amongst others as contrapunctus, cantus super librum and discantus. My research centres around the application of information found in sources into practical singing, and a reflection on how such skills can be best acquired. 

 

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To Begin, Continue and Complete: Music in the Wider Context of Artistic Patronage by Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503) and the Hymn Cycle of CS 15

by

Stuart Robb

2011

 

A thesis accepted for the degree of PhD at the University of Manchester

This thesis takes as its area of exploration the papal chapel choir and its repertory, alongside the papacy and its patronage of the arts at the end of the fifteenth century. It draws on previous research concerning the singers, polyphonic manuscripts and artistic culture of the Vatican, but places Pope Alexander VI as the central figure of the thesis, showing schemes of patronage that shaped his reign. The research presents a transcription and analysis of the hymn cycle contained within the manuscript Cappella Sistina 15, alongside an assessment of the polyphonic music collection and places these against accounts of music making and evidence of music copying at the papal chapel during Alexander’s reign. The thesis also considers the environment of secular music making at Alexander’s court. In order to provide a context in which to understand this information, the life of Alexander VI is examined, tracing his artistic patronage and involvement with music both prior to his election and afterwards. Of particular note is the engagement of the artist Pintoricchio to decorate the papal apartments. Here, the artist’s representation of music as part of the seven liberal arts is analysed, providing a unique, contemporary and important insight into music practices in Alexander’s court. Three classifications of patronage are identified for Alexander’s reign, while also showing that these were strategies that he had used before he became pope. The music culture at the papal chapel is shown to be part of this strategy, through the consolidation of old music and the introduction of new music into the repertory, ending a task that had taken approximately 60 years. It shows that Alexander’s reign was an important period musically, that instituted new musical traditions and created an environment that prepared the way for the golden ages of patronage of Julius II and Leo X.

https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:122374&datastreamId=FULL-TEXT.PDF

 

http://manchester.academia.edu/StuartRobb/Papers/549610/To_Begin_Continue_and_Complete_Music_in_the_Wider_Context_of_Artistic_Patronage_by_Pope_Alexander_VI_1492-1503_and_the_Hymn_Cycle_of_CS_15

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Antoine Guerber sur France Musique

Antoine Guerber, directeur musical de Diabolus in Musica, invité par Christophe Bourseiller dans Musique Matin du 11 novembre 2011

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmbimt_antoine-guerber-190911_music

 

 

Autre vidéo d'Antoine Guerber invité sur France Musique

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl4g5m_antoine-guerber-invite-de-france-musique_music#rel-page-5

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Je sais! ce n'est pas la priorité de ce lieu que je fréquente pourtant assidument ....

Mais l'archéologie musicale, l'iconographie et la lutherie relèvent pourtant bien de la "musicologie médiévale"

Et depuis 3 ans, ces domaines ont trouvé une vitrine : les Rencontres de Largentière (07)

http://www.rencontresdelargentiere.fr

Celles d'août 2011 ont été particulièrement passionnantes.

Quelques illustrations vidéos  à

http://rencontresdelargentiere.fr/rencontres-de-2011.html

et un compte-rendu des Tables rondes à

http://rencontresdelargentiere.fr/2011/Largentiere-tablesrondes2011.pdf

Le détail de la journée d'étude sur "le hautbois au Moyen Âge" sera prochainement mis en ligne...

 

Quant aux Rencontres de Largentière.....   Malgré le peu d"écho dans les médias nationaux et les difficultés économiques évidentes dans ce "micro-créneau" du monde musical, l'équipe qui les anime est prête à renouveler en août 2012.....

 

 

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Antiphonaria (ANTIPHON 1)

Catalogue of Notated Office Manuscripts Preserved in Flanders (c.1100 - c. 1800)
Volume 1 (Averbode, Dendermonde, Geel, Ghent, Tongeren)


S.A. Long, I. Behrendt, P. Mannaerts (eds.)

 

Date de publication prévue : Novembre 2011

 

http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503542782-1

 

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This major exhibition brings together for the first time some of the finest sacred masterpieces of medieval art.

Get close to these beautiful treasures in the exquisite setting of the domed Reading Room and witness stunning craftsmanship from an era of deep piety and devotion. Over 150 objects have been drawn from institutions from The Vatican to European church treasuries to museums in USA and Europe and from the British Museum’s own collection

 

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/treasures_of_heaven.aspx

 

The conference Matter of Faith will expand the themes addressed in the exhibition Treasures of Heaven: saints, relics and devotion in medieval Europe which runs from 23 June to 9 October 2011.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/october_2011/conference_matter_of_faith.aspx

 

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Recherches sur Cluny (Universität Münster)

Divers travaux de recherches sur Cluny sont menés à l'université de Münster.

http://www.uni-muenster.de/Fruehmittelalter/fr/Projekte/Cluny/index.html

 

Vous trouverez sous cette adresse :

 

 

 

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Chers amis,

J’ai publié en 2007 aux éditions Pierre-Téqui, un livre intitulé

« Guide pratique de chant grégorien

    Les récitatifs

    la prononciation

    la psalmodie

    les chants du prêtre à la Messe, avec un CD audio de  

       démonstration »

 

Les réimpressions en langue française montrent que ce travail répondait à un vrai besoin.

Cet ouvrage été traduit en italien et publié à la fin de 2008 par les « Edizioni Urban », sous le titre :

    « Guida pratica di Canto gregoriano ».

 

Dans la suite, des amis ont effectué la traduction en anglais, en espagnol et en japonais.

 

Il reste à trouver des maisons d’édition qui, en accord avec les éditions françaises Pierre-Téqui, accepteraient de publier l’ouvrage dans un pays où la diffusion puisse se faire facilement.

Si des grégorianistes germanophones veulent faire une traduction en allemand, leur collaboration sera accueillie avec attention. De même pour les autres langues.

Merci par avance à tous ceux qui apporteront leur aide à la réalisation de ces projets.

Père Jacques-Marie Guilmard

Solesmes, le 08 09 2011

 

 

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new CANTUS website

The CANTUS Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant is delighted to announce that a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the redesign of CANTUS at the University of Waterloo (Canada). In order to maintain its usefulness as one of the most lauded online Gregorian chant research tools, this digital archive of medieval manuscript indices is being redeveloped in MySQL on a Drupal server.  In this more up-to-date environment, there is great potential for new analytical and data-entry tools intended to serve both researchers and database contributors. CANTUS is now affiliated at the University of Waterloo with the MARGOT research cluster of medieval digital humanities projects, and is being run collaboratively by Debra Lacoste (University of Waterloo) and Jan Koláček (Charles University, Prague). Access CANTUS via MARGOT at http://margot.uwaterloo.ca/cantus/index.html or directly at http://cantus.gregorian-chant.org/.

 

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9126129662?profile=originalMaintenant le libre est arrivé!!!

Il s'agît d'une collection des articles. Visitez ma nouvelle page, svp. Vous trouvez aussi quelques extraits:

http://ensembleison.de/current.htm

Et si vous avez intéresse, là vous pouvez aussi ordonner le livre.

Il contient aussi un CD supplément avec les enregistrements au champs que j'ai fait en Bulgarie.

Je voudrais remercier pour tous les échanges que je pourrais faire dans ce réseau. Ils m'ont aidé beaucoup dans la révision de mes articles.

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SPLENDOR VERITATIS

I met Dom Alan Hohl, OCSO, in August 2008. He had an idea of making a website for publishing images of the books of chant he preserves at the Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity. Stan Stott, a deacon from Salt Lake City, had already photographed the books.

While studying for a moral theology exam, reading selections from Veritatis Splendor, I recalled what Dom Alan wanted the website to be called: Splendor Veritatis.

1. Antiphonale 
Antiphonarium Cisterciense, Westmalle 1947

2. Graduale 
Graduale Cisterciense, Westmalle 1899

 

by Christopher Gray

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