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The Liber Ymnorum of Notker Balbulus: Volume I: Text and Music; Volume II: Translation
Calvin M. . Ed(S): Bower
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hardcover. First edition with the melodies of an immensely significant ninth-century liturgical masterpiece. Editor(s): Bower, Calvin M. Translator(s): Bower, Calvin M. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; HRCC2; HRCL2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 215 x 54. Weight in Grams: 2722.
First edition with the melodies of an immensely significant ninth-century liturgical masterpiece. Winner of the Palisca Prize by the American Musicological Society, 2017 These two volumes present an important and distinctive collection of Carolingian poetry, composed for the liturgy in the last quarter of the ninth century by Notker Balbulus ("the stammerer"), monk of St Gall (d. 912). Notker was not the first liturgical composer inspired by the Carolingian renaissance of learning to make new texts for elaborate Alleluia melodies, but hewas certainly the first to raise the sequence genre to a consistently refined ... Read more
First edition with the melodies of an immensely significant ninth-century liturgical masterpiece. Winner of the Palisca Prize by the American Musicological Society, 2017 These two volumes present an important and distinctive collection of Carolingian poetry, composed for the liturgy in the last quarter of the ninth century by Notker Balbulus ("the stammerer"), monk of St Gall (d. 912). Notker was not the first liturgical composer inspired by the Carolingian renaissance of learning to make new texts for elaborate Alleluia melodies, but hewas certainly the first to raise the sequence genre to a consistently refined ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Henry Bradshaw Society United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Number of Pages
575
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907497292
SKU
V9781907497292
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Reviews for The Liber Ymnorum of Notker Balbulus: Volume I: Text and Music; Volume II: Translation
A monumental achievement in every sense of the word..These volumes raise Notker studies to a quite new level.
PLAINSONG & MEDIEVAL MUSIC
Bower's edition should provoke renewed attention to both the poetry and the notation of Notker's Liber ymnorum by scholars of poetry and music, as well as by performers..[It] will rightly take its place as an indispensable ... Read more
PLAINSONG & MEDIEVAL MUSIC
Bower's edition should provoke renewed attention to both the poetry and the notation of Notker's Liber ymnorum by scholars of poetry and music, as well as by performers..[It] will rightly take its place as an indispensable ... Read more