Harmony and the Music of the Spheres: The Ars Musica in Ninth-Century Commentaries on Martianus Capella

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-12525-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 590 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1193 g

Reihe: Mittellateinische Studien Und

In the ninth century, Martianus Capella's 'De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii', a late-antique encyclopedia of ancient learning on the seven Liberal Arts, was read with scrupulous vigour by the intellectual elite. Carolingian scholars produced a wealth of commentaries and glosses, which survived hidden in the margins of a remarkably large number of manuscripts.
In the first part of the book, the manuscript tradition of the oldest commentary is taken under scrutiny, and the Carolingian reception of ancient knowledge on the subject of music is opened up and analyzed. Its relevance for the formation of a new, medieval music theory is evaluated.
In the second part, the relevant parts of the oldest commentary are edited on the basis of eight ninth-century manuscripts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Teeuwen, Mariken

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

I. Introduction
II. Poetic Singers in the Book of Jeremiah: The Prophet (Rendering the City as Female) and the City’s Female Poet
III. Lamentions 1
IV. Lamentions 2
V. Lamentions 3-5
VI. Conclusion

Bibliography
Index of Topics and Authors
Index of Text Refernces

Über Autor(innen)

Mariken Teeuwen, Ph.D. (2000), Utrecht University, is Researcher at the Constantijn Huygens Institute (subsidiary of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), where she is working on a study concerning the Latin vocabulary of medieval intellectual life.