Calligraphy and the study of neumatic notations
Susan Rankin
The Calligraphy of Medieval Music treats the practical aspects book making and music writing trades in Middle Ages. It covers most major regions medieval Europe, from Sicily to England Spain eastern Germanic regions. Specific issues raised by contributors include pricking ruling books; habits scribes their reliance on memory; cultural influence monastic orders such as Carthusians; graphic variants between regional styles notation ranging tenth-century Saint-Gall sixteenth-century Cambrai; impact print late notation. volume opens with a few essays dealing general page layout manuscript production both out Europe. second part early notations tenth eleventh centuries, third part, twelfth sixteenth centuries.
Musicalia Medii Aevi