Musical notation has not always existed: in the West, musical
traditions have often depended on transmission from mouth to ear,
and ear to mouth. Although the Ancient Greeks had a form of musical
notation, it was not passed on to the medieval Latin West. This
comprehensive study investigates the breadth of use of musical
notation in Carolingian Europe, including many examples previously
unknown in studies of notation, to deliver a crucial foundational
model for the understanding of later Western notations. An overview
of the study of neumatic notations from the French monastic scholar
Dom Jean Mabillon (1632-1707) up to the present day precedes an
examination of the function and potential of writing in support of
a musical practice which continued to depend on trained memory.
Later chapters examine passages of notation to reveal those ways in
which scripts were shaped by contemporary rationalizations of
musical sound. Finally, the new scripts are situated in the
cultural and social contexts in which they emerged.
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