The Vatican Organum Treatise and the Organum of Notre Dame of Paris: Perspectives on the Development of a Literate Music Culture in Europe
The Vatican Organum Treatise and the Organum of Notre Dame of Paris: Perspectives on the Development of a Literate Music Culture in Europe
This chapter begins with a discussion of the tradition of music pedagogy in the European Middle Ages. It then discusses the Vatican Organum Treatise, which transmits the earliest known composition pedagogy of the Western tradition. It argues that the Vatican Organum Treatise offers two important insights. The first concerns the domain of non-literate and literate medieval music tradition. Attention to this domain is indispensable for understanding medieval music history. The second insight concerns the transformation to which the phenomenon of visible exemplification in music pedagogy was subject: in that we have observed this transformation and interrogated it, two central growth processes within medieval music history have presented themselves to us: the coming-to-be of scriptuality and the rise of a pre-scriptive composition.
Keywords: singing, medieval music, Middle Ages, composition, Vatican Organum Treatise, music pedagogy
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