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Subject: notitiae cantus Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 23:39:23 CET From: Guido Milanese *NOTITIAE CANTUS* An International Newsletter for Gregorian Chant and other Repertoires of Western Chant II 4 November-December 1995 Index Investigationes de cantu Heinrich Rumphorst................Gregorian Chant in Germany G.M..........................Concordance of Graduale Romanum G.M...............................Notitiae Cantus on the WWW Practica cantus G.M......................A Computer Font for Gregorian Chant Notitiae Cantus Subscription to this newsletter through e-mail is free. A hardcopy of Notitiae Cantus will be made available to sub- scribers who require or prefer this mode of publication. In order to cover the cost of printing and postage, an annual charge of $15 will be asked for this service. Preferred languages for contributions are Latin and English. Please direct your comments or questions to the Internet address mc1194@mclink.it. For WWW users, the files are available from the archive for rec.music.early on http://www.wu- wien.ac.at/earlym-l/Notitiae.Cantus/ and on ftp://ftp.wu- wien.ac.at/pub/earlym-l/Notitiae.Cantus/ . This issue has been sent to 316 e-mail subscribers; 35 printed copies were sent to musicians, liturgists, and musicologists. Genova, 15 gennaio 1996 Guido Milanese Home Salita del Passero 11, I-16126 Genova GE, Italia Tel. +39.10.252959 Office Universita' Cattolica, Largo Gemelli 1 I-20123 Milano MI, Italia Tel. +39.2.72342-750, fax -740 Notitiae Cantus, November-December 1995 1 of 6 _Gregorian Chant in Germany_*Heinrich Rumphorst* Professor Heinrich Rumphorst (Gosslerstrasse 23, D- 12161 Berlin-Friedenau, Germany) is Director of the Berliner Choralschola, a well known vocal ensemble. He was the editor of the newsletter "Informationen zur Gregorianik" (Internationale Gesellschaft f. Studien des gregorianischen Chorals, Die deutschesprachige Sektion); this newsletter is now published as a sec- tion of "Beitraege zur Gregorianik", the scholarly journal of this society. G.M. publishes here an abstract of some interesting articles of this newslet- ter, that was very appealing also for non German readers. Gregorian chant in Germany is studied at many different levels and in various environments. There are several monasteries where chant is studied and performed as a part of daily liturgical duties, even if most of these monasteries perform psalms and readings in German. Two of these monasteries (St. Ottilien and Muensterschwarzach, both in Bavaria) are prestigious for their recordings of chant, conducted by J.B. Goeschl and G. Joppich (both of them, unfortunately, decided to leave their monasteries). In St. Ottilien there are many Gregorian enterprises: for example short Gregorian seminars (of 2-3 days) aimed to give a general idea of chant. The participants can also take part in the monastic liturgy. Another "Gregorian place" in Germany is Essen, where courses, seminars and conferences have been organized for many years. An interesting report by E. Savelsberg informs on the Fifth international Gregorian Festival in Watou (Belgium), an important event with both practical and theoretical issues. The information given by "Informationen zur Gregorianik" covers also Gregorian recordings: several CDs are reviewed, including the well known CD of the Spanish monks of Santo Domingo de Silos. Professor Rumphorst notices the same point I have emphasized in my review (in the Italian journal "La Cartellina"): the two CDs are different, because the first -- the older one -- is a typical lifeless monastic recording, while the second shows a different per- spective, with some influence of semiological research. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _Concordance of the Graduale Romanum_*G.M.* Book Announcement: _A Concordance of Graduale Romanum_ (and _Triplex_) by Guido Milanese This book contains the Concordance of the Graduale Romanum (1974 edition, Paul VI's Graduale) and several other indexes and lists. Some of them are of lexicographic interest, others are of musicological and/or palaeographic pertinence (and they refer to the Graduale Triplex). The introduction is written by Mirella Ferrari, a well known scholar of Medieval palaeography. A substantial help was given by Father Bonifacio Baroffio. This book opens a new series (Bibliotheca Gregoriana) published by Editrice Liguria in cooperation with Associazione Ligure Ricerca Fonti Musicali, a society of musicological research based in Genoa, Italy. I would like to stress an important point: this work is complete. It lists *all* the words, including _et_ , _ad_, etc.: this is of crucial importance for studying the style and the "formulae", and from a paleographic point of view. The reverse index is important particularly for those who studies fragments (to locate a chant). CONTENTS: Introduction (Mirella Ferrari); Preface; Sigla; Fontes; Concordantia; Computationes; Index retrogradus (reverse index); Index iuxta frequentiam verborum (list of words by number of occurrences); Index cantuum iuxta modum (list of chants by "modes"); Index cantuum iuxta speciem et modum (list of chants by category and "modes"); Index cantuum sine neumis in libro G.T. (chants without neumes in the Graduale Triplex); Index cantuum sine neumis in indice Hesbertiano inscriptorum (chants without neumes in the Graduale Triplex but listed in the Antiphonale Missarum of Dom Hesbert); Index locorum variantium in libro G.T. (list of chants where there are textual differences among the mss used in the Graduale Triplex); Index verborum extremorum cantuum (list of the final words of chants) Those who would like to receive two sample pages (one of the Concordance and one of the other lists) can drop me a line and I'll send one among the following: -- a "print to file" for HP 300 dpi (HP laserjet II-III) -- a "print to file" for HP 600 dpi (HP laserjet IV-V) -- a postscript file (at low resolution [300 dpi] to reduce the size) -- a DVI file (ready to see/print on any TeX system) All the files are sent zipped and XXcoded. Please notice that the real book is printed with a professional typeset- ting system at high resolution. The samples are at low resolution. ************************************************************ Author: Guido Milanese Title: Concordantia libri Gradualis Romani et instrumenta lexicographica ISBN: 88-8055-151-5 Publisher: Editrice Liguria s.n.c. di N. Sabatelli & C. Address: Via De Mari 4R - I-17100 Savona, Italy or Postal Box 181 - 17100 Savona, Italy Telephone: 39-19-829917 Fax: 39-19-8387798 Pages: 550, cm 21*29,7 (A4) Price: US $45 includ. air mail shipping and handling (= 60,000 It. Lire) if the order is delivered before the 31st of March. Later, 25% more Payment - Postgiro: 00253179 Genova - International money order - Credit Cards: American Express, Bank Americard, Diners, Visa, CartaSi - Cash on delivery: only for Italy Please contact my e-mail address for any additional info and/or for the sample pages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Notitiae Cantus on the WWW_*G.M.* As you can see reading the front page of this issue, this newsletter is available also on the WWW (http://www.wu- wien.ac.at/earlym-l/Notitiae.Cantus/). Many thanks to Ger- hard Gonter (Wien) who made this substantial improvement possible. I tried to locate Notitiae Cantus with a net searcher (on Netscape) and it was immediately found. If you prefer, you can retrieve old issues via FTP (file transfer protocol) at the FTP location quoted in the front page. The issues are numbered as follows: Notitiae.Cantus.V1.1 January-October 1994 Notitiae.Cantus.V1.2 November-December 1994 Notitiae.Cantus.V2.1 January-March 1995 Notitiae.Cantus.V2.2 April-June 1995 Notitiae.Cantus.V2.3 July-October 1995 I hope to prepare a HTP edition of the collection, replacing the "text" files with the usual Internet graphic format. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- %Practica Cantus% _A Computer Font for Gregorian Chant (review)_*G.M.* Fr. Harry Hagan, OSB, author of this computer font, can be reached at St. Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, Indiana 47577, USA. Internet: hhagan@psci.net One of the major problems for scholars and musicians inter- ested in Gregorian Chant is writing the notation. I have myself published many articles where text is accompanied by a miserable patchwork of photocopies, handwritten lines of chant and so on. Fr. Harry Hagan gives a substantial help to all of us with this collection of Chant Fonts: these fonts were originally written for the Mac, and then adapted to Windows; both formats are now available. I have tested the Windows edition and they are a splendid piece of "computer art". The Windows edition is a collection of three fonts, called Meinrada, Meinradb, Meinradc. They come both in True Type and Type1 formats, i.e. they can be installed with Adobe Type Manager (Type1) or within Windows (True Type); installation in Windows95 is extremely easy and gives no problem at all. The fonts should be used at 48 points if the text is typed at 11/12 pts.; the author suggests using 72 points for altar usage. There are three fonts because the amount of characters required by Chant is so great that one font was not sufficient: therefore, Meinrada has the basic characters, Meinradb and Meinradc the additional characters necessary to a complete chant notation set. Entering music is very simple. I tested the fonts in WinWord 6 and I needed just a few minutes to familiarize with the encoding. Both entering simple notes (monosonic neumes) and constructing combinations (pes, clivis, tor- culus, and so on) is easy, and the documentation (a booklet and several pages of examples) is excellent and extremely clear. There is no need of a real tutorial: just read the examples... and do the same! For those who do not have a US keyboard instruction is given at page 4 of the Windows book- let, but using the Italian keyboard I did not have to switch to the USA one (at least in Windows95: don't know what might happen in Windows 3.1). In other words, it seems that you need no customization (good news for those who have non-USA keyboards). The system can be useful for several categories of users: scholars who like to produce papers with decent examples, choir conductors, parish or monastery musicians, composers of modern music who prefer this mode of notation. Even for those, like me, who do not use Windows for their normal editing the program is useful: draw the examples, save them as EPS files or other graphic format that your editing program can handle, and import the file in your text (that's what I am already doing). The price is very honest, I would say cheap if you think that there is a lot of work and a printed booklet; please contact Father Hagan for details. Highly recom- mended. |
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