11/2/2022 0 Comments Musical transcriptions![]() ![]() one in which all of the original information is preserved as directly as possible, including features such as decorated capitals This was always intended as a ‘diplomatic’ transcription from the manuscript¹, Until January 2014, just a single presentation of the musical notation was available on this website, which was the one Viewsįor each cantiga, three different presentations or ‘views’ of the music are available from the drop-down menu at the top of the Music tab.Įach of these is generated automatically, being just a distinct rendering in the web browser of exactly the same internal Neumat transcription data,īut each is designed for a slightly different purpose. Prologue A is just a poetic introduction without music, but five other cantigas are missing their musical notation:ĬSM 298 and 365 have ruled but empty staves in CSM 402 has unruled gaps in where the staves should be Īnd CSM 408 and 409 only appear in the unfinished manuscript, which has empty staves for all of its 104 cantigas. Of internal joining lines between note bodies to be seen more clearly. Slightly wider spacing for the stave lines, which gives a better approximation of the style, as well as allowing the presence or absence o, and generally being less strict in terms of the mensural values of the ligatures. ![]() e as the basic long and short mensural units rather than. Notation for these is rather different from, mostly using. There are eleven cantigas which only have music in, and I have transcribed these too for the sake of completeness, from my copy of the excellent quality, full-colour 2003 facsimile edition by the Consello da Cultura Galega. As of March 2014, however, I am seriously considering doing an additional transcription of the musical notation from my recently acquired copy of the full-colour, non-retouched Edilán 1979 facsimile of, which should give a more independent reading of approximately half of the Cantigas. Until a modern, high-resolution full-colour facsimile is published (and I've no idea whether one ever will be) or I am able to spend a long time at the Escorial library examining the original manuscript (possibly even less likely), I am afraid that this is the best I can offer with regard to. Any misinterpretations in this retouching-and I have no data on how frequent these might be-are therefore likely to be perpetuated in my transcriptions. In particular, note stems were inked over strongly and not always with the utmost care (you can clearly see the joins, or failure to join, in a great number of cases). Important: The facsimiles of published by Anglés were heavily retouched by his assistant. For the other eight, I have used the lower-numbered version, and pointed out any interesting differences in the annotations, although all are minor. In the case of CSM 340 (= 412) have I used the later, higher-numbered version, in order to match the preferred lyric structure. The nine cantigas that appear twice in have had their music transcribed only once. Sourcesįor the 403 cantigas that have musical notation in, my transcriptions are based on my own printed copy of Anglés' 1964 monochrome facsimiles of that manuscript. In the former case: please enable JavaScript, or you'llīe missing out on a lot of important features of this website! Otherwise, you might like to read my note about browser supportĪnd perhaps consider upgrading your browser. Rather than the graphical shapes of the stave elements, this is either because you have disabled JavaScript (in which case there's probably a warning displayed aboveĪnyway) or because your browser doesn't support the HTML Canvas element. Technical note: if you just see Neumat codes like ^, >, C, #, o, on, ron, royo on this page, Published versions in fully modern notation with a better informed, more critical eye. To get on with interpreting the original notation, and perhaps performing directly from it. The workings of my transcriptions of the Cantiga music, explain my editorial symbols, and generally give the performer enough information I hope though that this page will at least familiarize readers with I'm not going to attempt to provide a comprehensive guide to medieval mensural notation here-that'd beĪ major undertaking and I don't expect to get around to it any time soon. ![]()
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