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THE ARMENIAN NEUMES/XAZER*
Armenian Reporter, The; 3/5/2005; 458 words
; Armenian Reporter, The 03-05-2005 Deacon Rubik Mailian, the Choral Director and Pastoral Assistant of St. John's Armenian Church of Greater Detroit, was invited to take part with fifteen world scholars in a conference on early sacred music. The conference took place from February 18-20, 2005 and
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Pick of acoustic crop to play cherry Burton ; There will be a treasure trove of talent on show at the Acoustic Treasures night, when local performers, including The Neumes, Jess Bannister, Edwina Hayes, Miles Cain and Paul Liddell, gather to preview Beverley Folk Festival next week at Cherry Burton Village Hall.
Hull Daily Mail (UK); 5/1/2008; 408 words
; There will be a treasure trove of talent on show at the Acoustic Treasures night, when local performers, including The Neumes, Jess Bannister, Edwina Hayes, Miles Cain and Paul Liddell, gather to preview Beverley Folk Festival next week at Cherry Burton Village Hall. Rising stars Edwina Hayes,
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Introduction to Early Medieval Notation.(Book review)
Notes; 3/1/2008; Kujumdzieva, Svetlana; 695 words
; ... the history, theory, and paleography of neume studies. It opens new horizons in the field ... Floros insists on thorough study of the neume repertories based on an interdisciplinary ... opened. Byzantine, Slavonic, and Latin neume notations are presented in three major ...
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Medieval music on the Web: musical resources for the 21st century.
Australian Academic & Research Libraries; 3/1/1997; Stinson, John; 5137 words
; ... music is this: in 1175 the established neume notation had no means of indicating the ... argues, or than is indicated in the original neume notation.(15) At the other extreme of editorial ... who had first learned to sing chant from neume notation from the Graduale Triplex and ...
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(book review)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 12/1/2000; ABRAHAMIAN, LEVON; 648 words
; AT'AYAN, ROBERT. The Armenian neume system of notation; translation and annotation by V.N. Neressian ... presents one of the enigmas of Armenian medieval culture, the khaz or neume system of notation. This system, as the author shows, was introduced ...
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The plainsong of The Double Dream of Spring: John Ashbery, Olivier Messiaen, and rituals of the sacred.(Critical essay)
Philological Quarterly; 6/22/2004; Jacobs, J.L. Schleifer, Ronald; 9882 words
; ... Garden Warbler, the Black-Cap, the Song-Thrush, the Field Lark, the Robin, all sing neumes. And the admirable quality of the neume is the rhythmic suppleness which it engenders (Lecture, 6). Such rhythmic suppleness, he says, suggests (rather than represents ...
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Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians.
Church History; 6/1/2000; Alberi, Mary; 863 words
; ... neumes to indicate pitch. In Charlemagne's reign, a second type of neume appeared, indicating the particular gesture of a melody. Levy traces the origin of this second type of neume to ca. 800, positing the existence of an authoritative antiphonary ...
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The Solesmes Method: Then and Now
Pastoral Music; 6/1/2008; Kelly, Columba; 2044 words
; ... or, as they are more recently called, neume groupings) in determining the rhythmic ... the ictus falls on the first note of a neume in order to mark off these units of twos ... work of researching the meaning of the neume designs, besought chant directors to "go ...
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Harper-singer brings the music of first millennium to life
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 10/15/2000; TOM STRINI; 907 words
; Harper-singer brings the music of first millennium to life By TOM STRINI Journal Sentinel music critic Sunday, October 15, 2000 More than a thousand years ago, a harper traveled the Rhine valley, singing songs and telling stories in German or Latin to the monks and priests who were the intellectual
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(book reviews)
Notes; 9/1/1998; Steiner, Ruth; 2018 words
; ... total of eight times, with tiny changes in the rhythm (conveyed through the addition or deletion of episemas, changes in the neume forms, and the addition of letters such as c ). Arlt scrutinizes these versions and then demonstrates that part of what they ...
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