Magnus liber organi

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The magnus liber organi (“Great Book of the Organum”) is a medieval collection of organa and clausulae , i.e. polyphonic sections of the chorales . The work, with the full title Magnus liber organi de graduali et antiphonario pro servitio divino ("Great Book of the Organum for the Graduale and Antiphonary for Divine Service"), is the most important musical example of the Notre Dame school of the late 12th and 13th centuries. Century.

Emergence

The magnus liber organi is the work of several authors and goes back to the Parisian Magister Léonin , who wrote down his studies and compositions in the last quarter of the 12th century - as noted by a later editor around 1279, who was referred to in research as Anonymus IV . Léonin mainly wrote two-part rambling organa , which replaced the parallel organa ( quintorganum , quartorganum ) and the unison singing style of Gregorian chant at this time . The somewhat younger Pérotin then developed Léonin's two-part pieces into three- and four-part organa. Since the addition of a third and fourth voice made the free rhythm of Gregorian chant no longer applicable and a fixed rhythmization of the individual voices was essential to order the overall process, Pérotin used six different model clausulae , the so-called modal rhythm , in his contributions to the magnus liber organi . the at poetic meters of antiquity oriented.

Lore

The magnus liber organi has survived mainly in three medieval manuscripts, all of which date from the 13th century and serve separately as the basis for the complete scientific edition of the work:

Between 1993 and 2009, a seven-volume critical edition of the Magnus liber organum was published under the direction of the American music historian Edward Hugo Roesner, based on these manuscripts with a French and English translation or commentary, to which a number of accompanying special studies on the time of origin and structure have been added.

Editions

Facsimile / microfiche

Critical complete edition

  • Edward H. Roesner (Ed.): Le Magnus Liber Organi de Notre-Dame de Paris.
    • Volume 1: Les quadrupla et tripla de Paris , arr . by Edward H. Roesner. Les Remparts, Monaco 1993, ISBN 2-87855-001-3 .
    • Volume 2: Les organa à deux voix pour l'office du manuscrit de Florence, Bibliotheca Medicea-Laurenziana, plut. 29.1. edit by Mark Everist . Les Remparts, Monaco 2003, ISBN 2-87855-002-8 .
    • Volume 3: Les organa à deux voix pour la Messe (de Noël à la fête de Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul) du manuscrit de Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, plut. 29.1 , arr. by Mark Everist. Les Remparts, Monaco 2001, ISBN 2-87855-003-X .
    • Volume 4: Les organa à deux voix pour la messe (de l'assomption au commun de saints) du manuscrit de Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, plut. 29.1 , arr. by Mark Everist. Les Remparts, Monaco 2002, ISBN 2-87855-004-8 .
    • Volume 5: Le Magnus Liber Organi de Notre-Dame de Paris. Les clausules à deux voix du manuscrit de Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Pluteus 29.1 , arr. by Rebecca Baltzer. Les Remparts, Monaco 1995, ISBN 2-87855-005-6 .
    • Volume 6.1–6.2: Les organa à deux voix du manuscrit de Wolfenbüttel, Hertzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 1099 Helmst. edit by Thomas B. Payne. Les Remparts, Monaco 1996, (divided into two volumes) ISBN 2-87855-006-4 and, ISBN 2-87855-007-2 .
    • Volume 7: Les organa et les clausules à deux voix du manuscrit de Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 628 Helmst. , edit. by Edward H. Roesner; Plaints chants. edit by Evan Angus MacCarthy / Greta-Mary Hair. Les Remparts, Monaco 2009, ISBN 978-2-87855-008-5 .

literature

  • Rudolf Flotzinger: Leoninus musicus and the Magnus liber organi. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1736-3 .
  • Heinrich Husmann: The Origin and Destination of the "Magnus Liber Organi" . In: Edward H. Roesner (Ed.): Ars antiqua. Organum, conductus, motet. Ashgate, Farnham, et al. a. 2009, ISBN 978-0-7546-2666-4 , pp. 39-58.
  • Edward H. Roesner: Magnus liber organi. In: Dictionary of the Middle Ages , Volume 8, 1987, pp. 42-45. (Overview before publication of the new complete edition)

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Remarks

  1. ^ Rudolf Flotzinger: Leoninus musicus and the Magnus liber organi. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1736-3 , p. 38 f.
  2. ↑ a b c Detailed description and further literature on the website of the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music ; see. Otherwise the information in the “Editions” section of this article, including a facsimile / microfiche edition.
  3. ^ Entry in the Catalogo Aperto of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana with bibliography and lists of manuscript users
  4. ↑ See the English-language review of Theodore Karp's complete works, in: Notes. Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. Volume 63.4, 2007, pp. 929-934.
  5. ↑ Most recently Heinrich Husmann: The Origin and Destination of the "Magnus liber organi" . In: Edward H. Roesner (Ed.): Ars antiqua. Organum, conductus, motet. Ashgate, Farnham, et al. a. 2009, ISBN 978-0-7546-2666-4 , pp. 39-58.