The Winchester Troper

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Details
Product Type
Music score (reprint)
Editor
Susan Rankin
Product number
556616
Release Year
2007
Extent
280 Pages
Publisher
Stainer & Bell
Description

A seminal text in the study of Anglo-Saxon musical and liturgical practice, compiled in the early eleventh century and added to until the early twelfth, the Winchester Troper is published in a colour facsimile of the manuscript. The introduction explains how and why the book was made, and how its liturgical contents were designed. Studies of the hands of over fifty text scribes are accompanied by the first full account of Anglo-Saxon musical notation, and a study of the most innovative element o...