Sanctus for Two Voices in a Manuscript Fragment from the Collections of the National Museum – Czech Museum of Music

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Result on the web

<a href="https://publikace.nm.cz/en/file/f27c696da2685d96039fe8c797c7670f/53277/%282%29%20Musicalia_2025_1-2_Horyna_web.pdf" target="_blank" >https://publikace.nm.cz/en/file/f27c696da2685d96039fe8c797c7670f/53277/%282%29%20Musicalia_2025_1-2_Horyna_web.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/muscz.2025.001" target="_blank" >10.37520/muscz.2025.001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sanctus for Two Voices in a Manuscript Fragment from the Collections of the National Museum – Czech Museum of Music

Original language description

Fifty years ago, when Jaromír Černý wrote the study Středověký vícehlas v českých zemích (Medieval Polyphony in the Bohemian Lands), among the compositions written using the voice exchange technique (Stimmtausch), which are some of the oldest artefacts of polyphony in this country, he identified a group of thee compositions setting the text of the Sanctus (Sanctus II, Sanctus III, Sanctus IV), which are, in terms of their origin at the end of the 14th century, late examples of this polyphonic practice. At the time, Sanctus II was known from two sources – from addenda at the end of the Jistebnice Cantional and from a manuscript at the National Library of Poland, which was destroyed during the Second World War, but the composition was preserved in a photocopy. A third specimen of the composition has now been discovered in a manuscript fragment in the collection of the National Museum – Czech Museum of Music from around the middle of the 15th century. In addition, the fragment contains commentary written in verse, a Decalogue probably intended for students who could also be the performers of the notated compositions. The study is devoted to palaeographic analysis of the fragment, an edition of all three preserved Sanctus II settings, identification of how they differ from each other, and description of the systems of notation employed to write them down.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Musicalia

ISSN

1803-7828

e-ISSN

2533-5634

Volume of the periodical

2025/17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

6-24

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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