Graduel Neume
By (author) Monks of Solesmes
$49.95
- ISBN: 9782852740129
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- Product ID: 4003
- Format: Paperback
A valuable addition to any chant library, the Neumé Graduel, captures a turning point in the history of the restoration of Gregorian Chant. Created by Dom Eugene Cardine, he used as it’s foundation the first Vatican edition of the Graduale Romanum (no. 696), printed in 1908 by the Maison Desclée in Tournai. Superimposed upon the square notation, Dom Cardine used the very oldest manuscripts of the school of S. Gall: S. Gall 339 and 359, Einsiedeln 121, Bamberg lit. 6, and copied in by hand the neumes that correspond to each piece.
As not all the pieces in use today are found in the first manuscripts, only the pages of the Graduale where neumes appear above the staves have been reproduced here: this results in some skips in pagination especially in the second part of the work (Sanctoral), and the Kyriale is therefore completely omitted.
While the Neumé Graduel is not a critical work, having not been verified by a second reading directly on the documents, we see that what is lost from a critical point of view is largely compensated from a practical point of view, making this an invaluable resource.
As not all the pieces in use today are found in the first manuscripts, only the pages of the Graduale where neumes appear above the staves have been reproduced here: this results in some skips in pagination especially in the second part of the work (Sanctoral), and the Kyriale is therefore completely omitted.
While the Neumé Graduel is not a critical work, having not been verified by a second reading directly on the documents, we see that what is lost from a critical point of view is largely compensated from a practical point of view, making this an invaluable resource.
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