Notre Dame'S new clothes

• David Daolmi ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Milan

     University of Milan

     Milán, Italia

     
• Localización: Trans : Transcultural Music Review = Revista Transcultural de Música, ISSN-e 1697-0101, Nº. 18, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special Issue: Vocal Performance: New Perspectives in the Study of Vocal Music)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Starting from the numerous contradictions that characterize what we know about vocal practices of Notre Dame (ca 1200), the article acknowledges the Twentieth century the will to interpret the mensural sources as a Gothic speculative product, that is the 'origin' of a supposed evolution process of Western polyphony. The study attempts to give back to the Notre Dame chant the role of extemporaneous unwritten practice and, above all, try to re-read the last production as the result of a redundant Romanesque liturgy. In this way, it attempts to heal some historographical misunderstandings and offer an alternative reading to the surviving notations of polyphonic Paris corpus. This contribution is complemented by Livio Giuliano's article in this journal.