Designations of regional and geografic communities in medieval music writings (c. 900 to 1400)

中世纪的音乐理论著作包含许多社区的名称，如加利，弗朗西斯，阿勒曼尼，条顿尼，伦巴第，意大利等。这些名称是基于非常不同的概念。诸如氏族、民族、populus或civitas等当代术语只是模糊地描述了决定这些名称的语言、意识形态、政治、区域和其他因素的混合。它们在音乐理论著作中如此广泛地分布，系统的解释将大大提高我们对中世纪音乐著作的理解。这个研究项目仅限于音乐理论来源。它的目的是解释用于指定社区的术语以及使用这些术语的意图。除了解释这些名称及其在作品本身中的作用外，该项目还通过将音乐理论作品的地理和文化模式与我们对音乐实践中区域差异的了解联系起来，解决了所提到的社区与中世纪音乐实践之间的关系。该项目以跨学科的方法为前提，并与相关学科，特别是历史相关，因为它关注的主题是社区意识的构建，中世纪的身份认同，甚至可能有助于探索民族主义的发展。

The music-theoretical writings of the Middle Ages contain many designations of communities like Galli, Franci, Alemanni, Teutonici, Lombardi, Itali etc. Such designations are based on very different conceptions. Contemporary terms such as gens, natio, populus or civitas and so on only vaguely describe the mixture of linguistic, ideological, political, regional and other factors that determine those designations. They are so widely distributed in the music-theoretical writings that a systematic interpretation would significantly improve our understanding of medieval musical writings. The research project is confined to music-theoretical sources. It aims at an interpretation of the terms used to designate the communities as well as of the intention with which they have been used. In addition to the intrepretation of the designations and their function in the writings themselves the project addresses the question of how the communities mentioned are related to the musical practices of the Middle Ages by relating the geographical and cultural patterns of the music-theoretical writings to our knowledge about regional differences in musical practice. The project presupposes an interdisciplinary apporach and is connected to related disciplines, especially history, since it is focussing on topics like the construction of a sense of community, identity in the Middle Ages, and may even contribute to the exploration of the growth of nationalism.