musicography

Albert d'Haenens's study of the iconography of writing in the Middle Ages finds significant evidence that scribes held the quill in the right hand, and a penknife in the left, "at the ready for erasing or holding the parchment steady." (17) And in his study of thirteenth-century musicography in the Manuscrit du roi, John Haines reminds us that "in the middle ages, to write, then, meant also to erase." (18) Yet, we find no evidence of similar corrections in works copied by the Dijon scribe, who was responsible for copying the entire Dijon Chansonnier (the largest of the Loire Valley chansonniers), the Copenhagen Chansonnier, and parts of Laborde.

The volume includes subject and broadcast bibliographies, a filmography, and musicography.

12), but unfortunately, because Dauphin is committed to the view that the originality of Enlightenment musical thought is the emancipation of musicography from 'referential' imitation (and hence presumably a fortiori from the replication of text), the complex linguistic and philosophical theory which underlies Rousseau's writings on the specificity of national musics, not to mention the rich field of research on this subject, is given only a brief paraphrase (p.

One interesting claim is his concept of a |South-West, North-East bias' in the musicography. You could say there's a sort of forward-sloping handwriting between bass and treble, |directing the player's attention to the sequence of events and preparing him for the next gesture'.

The great Scots musicography: the complete guide to Scotland's music makers.

This book, both humanely affecting and acutely intelligent, will long remain a minor classic of musicography.