The Scientia artis musice of Hélie Salomon: Teaching Music in the Late Thirteenth Century

Download or read book The Scientia artis musice of Hélie Salomon: Teaching Music in the Late Thirteenth Century written by Joseph Dyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hélie Salomon’s Scientia artis musice (1274), is a practical manual devoted to basic concepts, psalmody, vocal pedagogy, the musical hand in singing, clefs as indicators of the tone (mode) to which a piece belongs, and practical instruction in the singing of four-voice parallel organum. Joseph Dyer presents the first, much-needed, modern edition of Salomon’s treatise, accompanied by a full English translation, comprehensive introduction and commentary. This edition corrects errors in the 1784 edition of Martin Gerbert, includes the music of chants omitted by Gerbert from the tonary, and makes available reproductions in colour of the eight illustrations in the treatise.