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  • 22 - Music books

  • from PART III - TYPES OF BOOKS AND THEIR USES
  • Edited by Richard Gameson, University of Durham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 March 2012
    Print publication:
    22 December 2011, pp 482-506

  • Summary

    The book containing texts intended to be sung should be considered a music book, when the passing on of music from one generation to another depended on a combination of oral and written transmission. An account of music books in Britain should therefore begin with one copied before Bede wrote his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The Winchester style of Insular notation may have used a type of script developed at Corbie as its immediate model; the wider context of its model was certainly northern French. Although a great deal of palaeographical work remains to be done, it is already possible to discern habits of writing which suggest identifiable scriptoria. Several classical or late antique texts included songs: in Anglo-Saxon England, the most widely circulated of these were Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae and Prudentius'Cathemerinon.