Genome of melody: applying bioinformatics to study the evolution of Gregorian chant

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11320/25:10511516

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Genome of melody: applying bioinformatics to study the evolution of Gregorian chant

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Genome of melody: applying bioinformatics to study the evolution of Gregorian chant

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

ISSN

0962-8436

e-ISSN

1471-2970

Svazek periodika

380

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1940

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

20240274

Kód UT WoS článku

001706381100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105027704977