Thank you for the music and score! I checked out the Codex Squarcialupi and I noticed you gave the wrong information: the notation for this caccia can not been found on fol 25v-26r, instead it's on fol 49v-50r. Anyway, thanks again!
This is amazing! Thank you so much for transcripting and uploading. One question: what are the brackets on top of the two stepwise 8th notes? Do they mean anything? Thanks again.
Hi. Good question. These "ligatures" are part of the translation from 14th century music notation to modern notation. Often, in creating a "critical edition" (rather than a "performative edition") the editor (often a musicologist like myself) attempts to encode information in the modern translation that tells a reader (either a performer or another music scholar) how the original looked. The brackets above some groups of notes signal where there was a "ligature" in the original notation. A ligature is merely the joining of multiple notes together into one group (kind of like beaming in modern music). Sometimes ligatures will have an effect on the interpretation of the music (often rhythmically), but sometimes ligatures were merely used to save ink and space on the page during a time when paper (often made of sheep skin) and ink were very expensive. So, the brackets don't have much importance to a modern performer reading the modern translation I have provided; however, to a musicologist or music theorist interested in studying early music but perhaps not comfortable with reading the original notation, these encoded symbols grant some access to understanding the process of translation. With them, one could, theoretically, recreate (reverse engineer) the original from these symbolic encodings in the modern translation. Does that all make sense? Don't hesitate to ask a follow-up question if I am not clear or this answer begets further questions.
There is no such thing as standard tuning in the Middle Ages and so when one performs Medieval music, one can "tune" to whatever you like. A is not 440 Hz; its whatever works best for your voices and collection of instruments. Notes in Medieval Music are about scale/mode relationship (patterns of semi-tones and tones) not about fixed pitches. This is one reason why perfect pitch is not a useful trick; pitch is arbitrary and only fixed by the convention of a particular time and place.
@@JordanAlexanderKey Gotcha. However, I'm still surprised by such difference in pitch. I'm familiar with the diapason being a post-enlightenment concept and base tuning to vary wildly before that, but this is a perfect fourth. I mean, they still had flutes and organs and other fixed-tune (sort of) instruments, so they must have had a way to agree on the pitch, to some extent? I mean, if everything can transpose at will, what would be the point of having 9 clefs? (I'm not being polemic, I'm genuinely asking :D )
One of the most captivating songs ever heard.
O.O *WONDERFUL* this rendition left me with no words
❤
love this
Thanks for the video :)
Thank you for the music and score! I checked out the Codex Squarcialupi and I noticed you gave the wrong information: the notation for this caccia can not been found on fol 25v-26r, instead it's on fol 49v-50r. Anyway, thanks again!
tra le belle !!!
Interesting！Middle age style
This is amazing! Thank you so much for transcripting and uploading. One question: what are the brackets on top of the two stepwise 8th notes? Do they mean anything? Thanks again.
Hi. Good question. These "ligatures" are part of the translation from 14th century music notation to modern notation. Often, in creating a "critical edition" (rather than a "performative edition") the editor (often a musicologist like myself) attempts to encode information in the modern translation that tells a reader (either a performer or another music scholar) how the original looked. The brackets above some groups of notes signal where there was a "ligature" in the original notation. A ligature is merely the joining of multiple notes together into one group (kind of like beaming in modern music). Sometimes ligatures will have an effect on the interpretation of the music (often rhythmically), but sometimes ligatures were merely used to save ink and space on the page during a time when paper (often made of sheep skin) and ink were very expensive.
So, the brackets don't have much importance to a modern performer reading the modern translation I have provided; however, to a musicologist or music theorist interested in studying early music but perhaps not comfortable with reading the original notation, these encoded symbols grant some access to understanding the process of translation. With them, one could, theoretically, recreate (reverse engineer) the original from these symbolic encodings in the modern translation.
Does that all make sense? Don't hesitate to ask a follow-up question if I am not clear or this answer begets further questions.
Mucho texto
How many of you are watching this for band
Are bands performing this? Marvelous. I would love to hear a full wind band rendition.
not really but we did watch it and write a response based on it, I actually really liked this particular one so I bookmarked it
Sounds AMAZING. However I wonder why the score is transposed a fourth down if compared to the music?
There is no such thing as standard tuning in the Middle Ages and so when one performs Medieval music, one can "tune" to whatever you like. A is not 440 Hz; its whatever works best for your voices and collection of instruments. Notes in Medieval Music are about scale/mode relationship (patterns of semi-tones and tones) not about fixed pitches. This is one reason why perfect pitch is not a useful trick; pitch is arbitrary and only fixed by the convention of a particular time and place.
@@JordanAlexanderKey Gotcha. However, I'm still surprised by such difference in pitch. I'm familiar with the diapason being a post-enlightenment concept and base tuning to vary wildly before that, but this is a perfect fourth. I mean, they still had flutes and organs and other fixed-tune (sort of) instruments, so they must have had a way to agree on the pitch, to some extent? I mean, if everything can transpose at will, what would be the point of having 9 clefs? (I'm not being polemic, I'm genuinely asking :D )
이탈리아 세속음악 : 마드리갈