A musical fragment from Anglo-Saxon England
John Haines
This article argues that a neume fragment found in the famous ‘Durham Cassiodorus’ (Durham, Cathedral Library, Ms.b.ii.30) may date from first half of 8th century. As part this argument, I suggest possibility notated music Anglo-Saxon England prior to 10th Since Durham Cassiodorus was likely read by Alcuin York who played an important Carolingian liturgical reform, be linked and what Kenneth Levy has called ‘Carolingian archetype’, is, now-lost antiphoner with compiled around 800. Other unreported English fragments 8th-century ‘Tiberius Bede’ (London, British Cotton Tiberius c.ii) are presented here.
Early Music