The Catholic Tradition Podcast: 191 – How the Church Invented Musical Notation
Feb 21, 2025
The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand
Years, by the nice English musicologist Christopher Web page,
covers the event of Christian liturgical music from its
origins as an elaboration of the position of the lector to its
flourishing within the monastic and cathedral singing colleges of
France, as Roman chant was unfold throughout Europe. Some of the
vital developments was the gradual improvement of a system of
notation within the late first millennium, culminating in Guido
d’Arezzo’s invention of the musical employees which allowed singers to
be taught melodies that they had by no means heard earlier than. Guido was motivated by
the need to reform monastic singing and allow monks to fulfil
their duties extra simply. This went together with a the
improvement of music idea far past something that may very well be discovered
within the classical sources.
Christopher Web page, The Christian West and Its
Singers https://yalebooks.yale.edu/e-book/9780300112573/the-christian-west-and-its-singers/
Gothic Voices ensemble https://gothicvoices.co.uk/
Christopher Web page taking part in Renaissance guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KW34ucTnhI&ab_channel=GreshamCollege
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