1. From the Hispanic rite to the Franco-Roman rite: musical notation and liturgical change.
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Rojo Carrillo, Raquel
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MUSICAL notation , *SCHOLARLY method , *RITES & ceremonies , *MANUSCRIPTS , *ABBEYS - Abstract
London British Library Additional Manuscripts 30847, 30848, and 30850, a series of Franco-Roman rite codices transmitting Gregorian chant and associated with the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos, are regarded as witnesses of the transition from the Hispanic rite to the Franco-Roman rite. This belief is largely owed to their musical notation, which previous works label as "Visigothic" or "Mozarabic," that is, using adjectives also employed to describe the Hispanic rite's most common variety of notation, called "vertical" notation in the most recent scholarship. The use of these adjectives suggests a gradual transition from one liturgy to the other, because it implies the survival of an important Hispanic rite element, its musical notation, purportedly preserved by Hispanic rite scribes after this rite's official suppression in 1080. This article presents the results of the first detailed study of the notation in these three Franco-Roman rite manuscripts, and of its relationship with the Hispanic rite's vertical notation, considering also other musical notations employed in the Iberian Peninsula around the end of the eleventh century. These results reveal that the affiliation between these notations is not as straightforward as previously thought. I propose a new way of understanding these notations and discuss questions that their complicated relationship raises about their context of production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2025
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