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Nausica Morandi

L'Officium Stellae. Studio comparativo e trascrizione dei testimoni liturgico-musicali

PB pp. XXXI-468, € 65,00

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2016
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978-88-8450-690-0
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In this book the Officium Stellae, the Epiphany medieval liturgical drama, has been examined under a pluri-methodological and interdisciplinary point of view, revealing some less known and unknown features. For the first time the whole corpus of the fifty sources of the drama, twenty of which come to the light in the course of the present research, has been published. The book highlights in an innovative way not only how the sources of the drama are chronologically (from the 10th to the 16th century) and geographically (ten countries from Spain to Hungary and from United Kingdom to South and insular Italy) widespread, but it also draws through a synchronic and diachronic system of analysis, the different relationships which band together sources belonging to different textual and musical traditions. Each chapter reserves special attention to the interaction among different expressive codes (textual, musical, liturgical, ritual and dramaturgical), since the synergy of these codes constitutes the real communicative and expressive power of dogmatic, theological and symbolical meanings of the drama. The first chapter begins with the exposition of general aspects about the origin of the drama, its denominations, chronology and diffusion of the sources. Further on is examined the relationship between the Officium Stellae and the liturgy for its value as context of production and reception of the drama. The attention is then turned to the study of the sources for texts and characters of the drama for understanding deeply the origin of such a huge repertory assembled from a plurality of liturgical, paraliturgical and literary sources. The second chapter concerns the tradition and the relationships among the sources of the drama, both presenting for each of the fifty sources an analytical sheet profile and producing a comparative analysis of: textual and dialogical structures (tables of the sources, chronological synopsis and texts indexes), musical structures (musical synopsis, in-depth analysis of notation and modal setting), dramaturgical structures (analytical tables of the rubrics). The third chapter presents the edition of the texts of the drama. In the fourth chapter traditional methodologies are supported and integrated by the modern technology of the digital restoring and by the innovative procedure of digital tracing. These techniques are particularly useful to face the well known problem in the transcription of adiastematic sources. The fifth chapter presents the musical transcriptions of the sources using specific computer programmes and fonts. The increasing attention that the study of this drama has raised in the academic international community of musicologists, liturgists, dramatists and historians, conjugated with the interdisciplinary, long ranged and rigorous approach, makes this book of interest for a wide range of scholars.
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