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The Liber Ymnorum of Notker Balbulus

Volume I: Text and Music; Volume II: Translation. Henry Bradshaw Society

Edited by Calvin M. Bower
Translated by Calvin M. Bower
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Henry Bradshaw Society, United Kingdom
Published: 15th Dec 2016
Dimensions: w 210mm h 304mm d 57mm
Weight: 2710g
ISBN-10: 1907497293
ISBN-13: 9781907497292
Barcode No: 9781907497292
ISSN: 0144-0241
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First edition with the melodies of an immensely significant ninth-century liturgical masterpiece. Winner of the Palisca Prize by the American Musicological Society, 2017 These two volumes present an important and distinctive collection of Carolingian poetry, composed for the liturgy in the last quarter of the ninth century by Notker Balbulus ("the stammerer"), monk of St Gall (d. 912). Notker was not the first liturgical composer inspired by the Carolingian renaissance of learning to make new texts for elaborate Alleluia melodies, but hewas certainly the first to raise the sequence genre to a consistently refined linguistic and theological level, and to provide a repertory for the annual cycle of holy feasts. His collection circulated widely in Germanic areas inthe tenth and eleventh centuries, while some of his compositions - such as Sancti spiritus - became staples throughout Europe. Notker's Liber ymnorum has never before been edited with the melodies after which his sequences were fashioned and to which they were sung. Provided here is a full edition of Notker's dedicatory preface, followed by 49 sequences. Each sequence is presented with two musical notations ("Carolingian", in neumes, and pitched on staves), followed by translations and an extensive commentary. A full introduction provides a context for the work.

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A monumental achievement in every sense of the word..These volumes raise Notker studies to a quite new level. * PLAINSONG & MEDIEVAL MUSIC * Bower's edition should provoke renewed attention to both the poetry and the notation of Notker's Liber ymnorum by scholars of poetry and music, as well as by performers..[It] will rightly take its place as an indispensable contribution. * MUSIC AND LETTERS *