español | français Guillaume Dufay Maria Antonia Walpurgis: Baroque Women VIII Reingard Goebel 10 CDs for a desert island : Peter Holman: Codex Las Huelgas   54 - 53 - 52 - 51 - 50 - 49 - 48 - 47 - 46 - 45 - 44 - 43 - 42 - 41 - 40 - 39 - 38 - 37 - 36 - 35 - 34 - 33 - 32 - 31 - 30 - 29 - 28 - 27 - 26 - 25 - 24 - 23 - 22 - 21 - 20 - 19 - 18 - 17 - 16 - 15 - 14 - 13 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 09 - 08 - 07 - 06 - 05 - 04 - 03 - 02 - 01 - CODEX LAS HUELGAS By Juan Carlos Asensio. Translated by Yolanda Acker The complexity and importance of the literary output of the Medieval era would be better appreciated if these early manuscripts could reveal how they were originally copied and assembled, as well as the identities of the various hands who contributed to this process—line rulers, calligraphers, scribes, illuminators, binders and those who subsequently consulted them. Various historical circumstances have played a part in converting many general libraries into custodians of a large proportion of the manuscripts of the Middle Ages, where they lie in wait of exhaustive scholarly research or one off consultations. But this could not be further from the codex’s original aim. For centuries, it was the literary unit par excellence and, specifically in music, the only meeting point between early performance practices and our intention to revive the music of this period. In the Middle Ages the copying of music manuscripts had a very functional purpose. Frequently those with liturgical contents were copied in order to transmit melodies. Due to the increasing importance of the liturgy and of chant as part of this, it is not surprising that there were a large number of well cared-for music books in circulation and that they were copied by highly professional scribes. For this reason, in the main religious centres of the post-Carolingian period, schools dedicated to musical invention and culture flourished with relative ease and were immediately linked to important copying centres, raising musical science to unsuspected heights. Discography Goldberg Articles ABOUT US | CONTRIBUTE   web map - home page - cover Legal warning Copyright 2003, Goldberg. info@goldberg-magazine.com