Abstract of Paper Presented at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 2015)
\nJohn Haines (Faculty of Music and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto)
\n“Medieval Astrological Songs”<\/p>\n
2015 Congress Events Announced<\/a> and 2015 Congress Events Accomplished<\/a><\/p>\n [Published on 22 March 2015<\/em>]<\/p>\n Twenty-seven notated songs on astrological themes survive from the Middle Ages that have come down to us in some thirty manuscripts. These range from liturgical books such as the Saint-Gall troper (Saint-Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 338) to literary miscellanies such as the Vatican manuscript (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. MS Lat. 300). \u00a0Interestingly, the majority of the manuscripts date from the earliest period of medieval music notation, from the ninth to the eleventh centuries, rather than later as one might expect.<\/p>\n The codicological context of these songs tells us something about how they were perceived by their medieval codifiers. \u00a0Items found alongside the songs include Martianus Capella\u2019s Marriage of Mercury and Philology<\/em>, various works of astrological prognosis including a treatise on Egyptian days, and the Guidonian hand. \u00a0Many of the songs, such as the popular \u201cNone aprilis,\u201d are mnemonic verses for computus<\/em>, that is, the calculation of the date of Easter, for which astrological knowledge was essential. \u00a0Others relate more directly to astrology, such as \u201cEx oriens Chelas Aries,\u201d the so-called \u201cSong of Martianus\u201d (\u201cVersus Martianii\u201d). \u00a0A few relate more directly to the music of the spheres, as for example \u201cVite dator\u201d (which one manuscript calls a \u201cPythagorean conductus\u201d) or \u201cHeu, quam precipti\u201d from Boethius\u2019 Consolation of Philosophy.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Website Editor’s Note:<\/p>\n Abstracts of other Papers by our Associate John Haines at our Co-Sponsored Sessions appear here: Earlier papers by John Haines in our Co-Sponsored Sessions, before our custom of publishing the Abstracts, appeared here: We thank him for his contributions to our events!<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abstract of Paper Presented at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 2015) John Haines (Faculty of Music and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) “Medieval Astrological Songs” John Haines (Faculty of Music and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) “Medieval Astrological Songs” Abstract of Paper Presented at the 50th International […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4577,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3705\/revisions\/4577"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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