{"title":"Melismas in the Speculum musicae","authors":"Thomas Forrest Kelly","doi":"10.1093/em/caab071","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Eight melodies, one for each of the ecclesiastical modes, are given as optional additions to responsories and other chants in the 14th-century Speculum musicae of Jacobus of Liège. The melodies have paired phrases resembling those of contemporaneous dance music. The paucity of surviving melodies of this sort, and their almost exclusive association with secular music, make this series particularly fascinating.","PeriodicalId":44771,"journal":{"name":"EARLY MUSIC","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"EARLY MUSIC","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caab071","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Eight melodies, one for each of the ecclesiastical modes, are given as optional additions to responsories and other chants in the 14th-century Speculum musicae of Jacobus of Liège. The melodies have paired phrases resembling those of contemporaneous dance music. The paucity of surviving melodies of this sort, and their almost exclusive association with secular music, make this series particularly fascinating.
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Early Music is a stimulating and richly illustrated journal, and is unrivalled in its field. Founded in 1973, it remains the journal for anyone interested in early music and how it is being interpreted today. Contributions from scholars and performers on international standing explore every aspect of earlier musical repertoires, present vital new evidence for our understanding of the music of the past, and tackle controversial issues of performance practice. Each beautifully-presented issue contains a wide range of thought-provoking articles on performance practice. New discoveries of musical sources, instruments and documentation are regularly featured, and innovatory approaches to research and performance are explored, often in collections of themed articles.