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Extracts from musical treatises

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Brussel/Bruxelles, Bibliotheek Koninklijke Conservatoria Brussel/Bibliothèque des Conservatoires royaux de Bruxelles, P-2-00469-(12)

Godfried Croenen, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)

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I am very grateful to Ben Albritton, Laurence Price and Christian Meyer for their precious help with the identification of the texts and references to editions.

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Title Extracts from musical treatises
Material Paper
Script, Hands

Written by two hands in a littera cursiva.

Current Condition

Dimensions 195 x 135 mm

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Johannes Hollandrinus, <i>Opusculum monacordale</i>, extract
    • Content Description

      Inventores musice
    • Fol. [1]r
    • Edition Fritz Feldmann, Musik und Musikpflege im mittelalterlichen Schlesien (Breslau: Trewendt & Granier, 1938), p. 159
  • Content Item
    • Persons
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Petrus Riga, <i>Aurora</i>, extract
    • Content Description

      v. 465-476: De Tubal versus
    • Fol. [1]r
    • Edition Paul E. Beichner, ed., Aurora : Petri Rigae Biblia Versificata : A Verse Commentary on the Bible (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1965), vol. 1, p. 45
    • Remarks

      This extract from the Aurora is cited in several later musical treatises, including the Flores musice omnis cantus gregoriani attributed to Hugo von Reutlingen (ed. C. Beck, Stuttgart, 1868, p. 22-23) and in Nicolaus Wollick's Enchiridion musices (Liber 1, f. A3v-A4r).

      The manuscript reads 'Tubal' for 'Iubal', a common error in the original bible passage, as well as in later reworkings and commentaries. See Beichner, The Medieval Representative of Music.
  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Hec doctor Petrus in libro de aferna
    • Content Description

      Unidentified introduction to the practice of solmisation that is not known from other sources.
    • Fol. [1]r
  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Short extracts on chant
    • Content Description

      The extracts deal with some fundamental aspects of chant, in particular transposition of chant and the use of accidentals.

      a. De coniunctis nota: on accidentals (flats and naturals)

      b. Quamvis omnis tonus autentus: on psalmodic tones

      c. Nota in ffaut nunquam: solmisation rules

      d. Musica ficta: rules for transposition of chant

      e. Omnis eciam dyatesseron: on accidentals
    • Fol. [1]v

Bibliography

  • Beck, Carl, ed., Flores musice omnis cantus gregoriani von Hugo von Reutlingen (Stuttgart, 1868)
     https://books.google.com/books?id=WE8NAQAAIAAJ

  • Feldmann, Fritz, Musik und Musikpflege im mittelalterlichen Schlesien (Breslau: Trewendt & Granier, 1938)

  • Beichner, Paul E., ed., Aurora : Petri Rigae Biblia Versificata : A Verse Commentary on the Bible (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1965)

     https://www.google.com/books/edition/Aurora_Petri_Rigae_Biblia_versificata/j7VmAAAAMAAJ
  • Enchiridion musices Nicolai Wollici Barroducensis de gregoriana et figurativa atque contrapuncto simplici percommode tractans, omnibus cantu oblectantibus, perutile et necessarium (Paris: Jean Petit, 1512)
     http://archive.org/details/VM183RES

  • Beichner, Paul E., The Medieval Representative of Music, Jubal or Tubalcain? (Notre Dame: The Mediaeval Institute, University of Notre Dame, 1954)
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