A perspective on the southern Italian sequence: the second tonary of the manuscript Monte Cassino 318
Lance W. Brunner
The medieval sequence was one of the most distinguished artistic achievements Carolingian age. In creating genre, Frankish poet–musicians moulded text and music into a new extraordinary synthesis, created composition that stood proudly apart from Gregorian Propers surrounded it in Mass. style must have spread quickly throughout Empire, eventually reaching well beyond its borders. Pieces earliest centres travelled far wide inspired works at every turn — faithful imitations or adaptations, as which consciously modified to reflect different aesthetics distant realms. legacy surviving sources, however, does not permit details these early developments be traced; even precise dates places where first cultivated remain obscure. sources regions give access only relatively mature stages development, already reveal complex web interrelationships has been difficult untangle.
Early Music History