Genome of melody: applying bioinformatics to study the evolution of Gregorian chant
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11320/25:10511516
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0274" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0274</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0274" target="_blank" >10.1098/rstb.2024.0274</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Genome of melody: applying bioinformatics to study the evolution of Gregorian chant
Original language description
Gregorian chant was a central musical tradition in Medieval Latin Europe and one of the expressions of its cultural unity: any Latin Christian liturgy, such as the weekly Sunday mass, would have involved Gregorian chant as a major part of the prescribed ritual. The Gregorian legend of chant melodies’ divine origin required the practitioners to conserve them, to the extent that this requirement motivated the development of exact pitch notation. Nevertheless, surviving manuscripts document a considerable melodic diversity. Some systematic patterns within this melodic diversity have previously been observed in chant scholarship, especially during efforts to build a critical edition reconstructing the earliest possible forms of chant melodies with philological approaches. Taking an evolutionary perspective, we notice analogies between biological evolution and processes of chant transmission, which lead us to suggest recovering these ‘melodic dialects’ using phylogenetic methods instead. In this paper, we show that phylogenetic models recover historically plausible patterns of chant melody evolution. We observe that some, but not all, institutional networks play a more important role than geographical proximity. Phylogeny is shown to be a viable class of methods for studying chant melody, and we discuss next steps for a more comprehensive evolutionary approach to chant.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
ISSN
0962-8436
e-ISSN
1471-2970
Volume of the periodical
380
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1940
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
20240274
UT code for WoS article
001706381100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105027704977