Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface 1
4. Overview
5. Polyphonic Fragments: Destruction, Recovery, Reconstruction 9
6. Models
7. Processional Chants in the Early Medieval Period: The Lesson of Fragments 39
8. Some Medieval Relics of Saints’ Plainchant Offices 77
9. Trails
10. Music Fragments from Slovenia: Towards a Reconstruction of the Medieval Plainchant Manuscript Production 97
11. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century in Aragon: Reassessing a Panorama of Fragmentary Sources 117
12. Fragments of Local Polyphony in Late Medieval Central Europe: Towards a Semiotic Interpretation of Musical Sources 165
13. Receivers
14. Make Do and Mend: Reworking Liturgical Parchment Manuscripts in Post-Reformation Sweden 185
15. The Aesthetics of Fragments: Reading Pastedowns in Context or, Late Medieval Bookbinders, Readers, and Their Choices 205
16. Representations
17. A Collection of Fragments, or a Fragment of a Collection? The Musical Appendix of A-Wn Cod. 5094 241
18. The Unexpected Song: An Early Italian Vernacular Poem, a Neumatic Notation, and How to Detect Their Interrelationships in the Ravenna Charter 263
19. Processes
20. Fragmenta Manuscriptorum Musicalium Hungariae Mediaevalis: From Traditional Methodologies Towards a Digital Corpus 301
21. Restoration, Reconstruction, and Revisionism: Altering Our Virtual Perception of Damaged Manuscripts 323
22. Indexes
23. Index of Manuscripts and Fragments 369
24. Index of Chants and Compositions 375
25. General Index 383