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- Title
A musical fragment from Anglo-Saxon England.
- Authors
Haines, John
- Abstract
This article argues that a neume fragment found in the famous 'Durham Cassiodorus' (Durham, Cathedral Library, Ms.B.11.30) may date from the first half of the 8th century. As part of this argument, I suggest the possibility of notated music in Anglo-Saxon England prior to the 10th century. Since the Durham Cassiodorus was likely read by Alcuin of York who played an important part in the Carolingian liturgical reform, the Durham Cassiodorus neume fragment may be linked to Alcuin and to what Kenneth Levy has called a 'Carolingian archetype', that is, a now-lost antiphoner with music compiled around 800. Other unreported English neume fragments found in the 8th-century 'Tiberius Bede' (London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius c.11) are presented here.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; CASSIODORUS, Durham; MUSIC history; LEVY, Kenneth; CHURCH libraries; EIGHTH century
- Publication
Early Music, 2008, Vol 36, Issue 2, p219
- ISSN
0306-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/em/can036