Melody Networking: Discovering, Comparing, and Understanding Medieval Chant
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
Organizer Name
Debra Lacoste
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Waterloo
Presider Name
James Borders
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Paper Title 1
Musicians of the Bayeux Tapestry and William's Elegy
Presenter 1 Name
Alma Santosuosso
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
Paper Title 2
Pitch Series, the Compositional Basis of Antiphons and Responsories
Presenter 2 Name
Terence Bailey
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Western Univ.
Paper Title 3
Sing Another New Song: Indexing Melodies in the Cantus Database
Presenter 3 Name
Debra Lacoste
Start Date
15-5-2016 8:30 AM
Session Location
Fetzer 1010
Description
Several years ago, the Cantus Database added melodies as one of the possible criteria for searching and identifying chants in the medieval office. Recent interest in analyzing chant melodies and tracking their use has resulted in many different methods of encoding music, both digitally and otherwise. Our understanding of the way these melodies were conceived, retained, and perpetuated has grown enormously. This Cantus-sponsored session seeks to lay aside, momentarily, the importance of text, and explore instead the melodic identity of medieval chant, both within and outside the Gregorian tradition. Methodologies of chant analysis will be explored, and the various challenges of working with musical information drawn from medieval manuscripts will be exposed.
Melody Networking: Discovering, Comparing, and Understanding Medieval Chant
Fetzer 1010
Several years ago, the Cantus Database added melodies as one of the possible criteria for searching and identifying chants in the medieval office. Recent interest in analyzing chant melodies and tracking their use has resulted in many different methods of encoding music, both digitally and otherwise. Our understanding of the way these melodies were conceived, retained, and perpetuated has grown enormously. This Cantus-sponsored session seeks to lay aside, momentarily, the importance of text, and explore instead the melodic identity of medieval chant, both within and outside the Gregorian tradition. Methodologies of chant analysis will be explored, and the various challenges of working with musical information drawn from medieval manuscripts will be exposed.