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MISC 7
QUOMODO CANTABIMUS CANTICUM? STUDIES IN
HONOR OF EDWARD H. ROESNER,
Edited by David Butler Cannata,
Gabriela Ilnitchi Currie, Rena Charnin Mueller,
and John Louis Nádas.
ISBN 978-1-59551-496-7 (2008) xii + 282 pp. $60.00
Edward
Roesner forged a career in musicology that placed him at the forefront of
the discipline. This collection of thirteen essays entitled Quomodo
Cantabimus Canticum? taking its name from an important motet text in
the Roman de Fauvel, and written and edited by a group of scholar
friends and students, honors not only his rigorous scholarship but also
the breadth of his interest and learning. Starting with Leofranc
Holford-Strevens’ rationale of how Roesner, as Gustave Reese’s protégée
and successor, had no choice but to be a Medievalist, Gabriela Ilnitchi
Currie’s discussion of Eriugenian song, and Susan Rankin’s exposé on the
making of Carolingian chant books, the anthology traverses a wide
continuum of argument all of which underscores Roesner’s particular
interests—liturgy, chant, polyphony, authenticity, the dissemination of
texts and ideas over the centuries, and things Parisian. Andreas Haug
brings new perspectives to bear on Notker’s Preface; and following
Roesner’s interest in all aspects of the Medieval and Renaissance eras,
today’s leading scholars—Rebecca Baltzer, Margaret Bent, Bonnie Blackburn,
Susan Boynton, Michel Huglo, Karl Kügle, and Joshua Rifkin—reexamine
previously accepted notions of time and space, terminology, and
transmission within previously “explicit” texts and tropes. The collection
comes full circle with Linda Correll Roesner’s discussion of a Clara
Schumann letter (Reese’s wedding gift to the Roesner couple), and a return
to Paris with David Cannata’s investigation of Messiaen as Thomistic
Christologist. The editors were resolute that Roesner provide his own
bibliography! With every sentence, Quomodo Cantabimus Canticum? Essays
in Honor of Edward H. Roesner, a compilation that can only begin to
plumb Roesner’s facility and relentless pursuit of precision in all areas
of academic investigation, marvels “How Can We Sing the Song?”
Articles
Mary Carruthers, “Edward H. Roesner: An Appreciation
Rena Charnin Mueller, “Edward H. Roesner: A Personal Recollection”
Leofranc Holford-Strevens, “Suavis et morosus: The Ways of a Word”
Gabriela Ilnitchi Currie, “Concentum celi quis dormire faciet? Eriugenian
Cosmic Song and Carolingian
Planetary Astronomy”
Susan Rankin, “The Making of Carolingian Mass Chant Books” Andreas Haug
“Re-reading Notker’s Preface”
Bonnie J. Blackburn, “Properchant: English Theory at Home and Abroad, with
an Excursus on
Amerus/Aluredus and his Tradition”
Michel Huglo, “The Manuscript Processionals of Notre Dame of Paris”
Rebecca A. Baltzer, “The Manuscript Makers of W1: Further Evidence for an
Early Date”
Margaret Bent, “What is Isorhythm?” Karl Kügle, “Two Abbots and a Rotulus:
New Light on Brussels 19606”
Joshua Rifkin, “Who really composed Mille regretz?”
Susan Boynton, “Reconsidering the Toledo Codex of the Cantigas de Santa
Maria in the 18th Century”
Linda Correll Roesner, “Patronage and Friendship in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century: An Unpublished Autograph
Letter from Clara Schumann to Carl Gustav Carus,
Physician to the Saxon Court, Natural Philosopher and
Landscape Artist”
David Butler Cannata, “Messiaen Reads the Infancy Gospels: The Vingt
Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus as
Christology”
Edward H. Roesner, “Publications”
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