Understanding Old Hispanic chant manuscripts and melodies

背景告诉西班牙圣歌手稿没有指定精确的间隔或音高。这限制了对旋律的学术理解。在grant AH/H008306/1中，我们开始系统地理解古西班牙圣歌的音乐语言，尤其是节奏。我们确定了特征的节奏手势，以及它们如何适应不同数量的音节和（有时）口音模式。我们还探索了旋律节奏如何与文本相互作用：通常在神学上重要的单词上有许多音符，将参与者的冥想引向这些单词和想法。我们将通过以下方式显著提升这些研究成果的文化影响力：数字展览；在马德里和科英布拉举办公共讲习班；将古西班牙圣歌数据纳入www.cantusdatabase.org（教会手稿内容的旗舰数字档案）；Youtube解释性视频；推广我们的在线转录和分析软件。我们将重新联系参观拉梅戈、科英布拉、马德里、León和瓦伦西亚的档案馆和博物馆的当地人，让他们了解这些几乎被遗忘的文化遗产，并向游客伸出援手。一个互动的数字展览将结合在他们的家庭机构中展示一些碎片手稿。这次展览是与这五家机构共同制作的，将提高人们对古西班牙礼仪的认识，对其历史的大致概述，尤其是这些片段的历史。我们也会向公众介绍我们的一些旋律发现，通过初学者指南来阅读音符，以及帮助人们识别节奏形状和欣赏旋律节奏和解析文本的入门。一些展览材料将以短视频的形式呈现，也将发布在Youtube上（进一步扩大潜在的影响范围）。所有展览资料将以英语、西班牙语和葡萄牙语呈现。古老的西班牙语材料将首次包含在www.cantusdabatase.org中。与学者一样，这是合唱团指挥和业余圣歌/礼拜仪式爱好者的第一个呼吁，他们可能会被古老西班牙圣歌的礼仪和神学特色所打动，并希望进一步探索：我们将添加链接到我们基于网络的圣歌编辑和分析程序，在那里他们将找到数字展览和我们的转录和分析工具。我们将使用社交网络，并与特殊兴趣群体沟通，传播我们活动的知识。潜在的应用和好处我们将以一种远远超越对材料的美丽和古老的肤浅欣赏的方式吸引观众。它的好处是文化上的：当然是美学上的和历史上的，很可能给人们带来从最初难以理解的符号中发现有意义的模式的乐趣，（对一些人来说）也是虔诚和精神上的。虽然现在鲜为人知，但古西班牙礼拜仪式在神学和音乐上都很复杂；为单个节日和整个季节准备的复杂的礼拜仪式可以与中世纪的其他珍宝相媲美。提议的活动可以让很多人参与到这个文化宝藏中来。我们将开发一个新的伊比利亚合作伙伴网络，与他们的机构一起，我们将根据这里提出的创新模式，探索未来类似知识转移的可能性。我们的长期目标是我们的分析软件www.cantusdatabase.org和SIMSSA（麦吉尔大学，在开发光学神经识别软件的开放阶段）之间的三方合作。拟议的项目将这项研究的两个部分结合在一起，准备供公众使用，同时继续与SIMSSA开展三方对话。

ContextOld Hispanic chant manuscripts do not specify precise intervals or pitches. This has constrained scholarly understanding of the melodies. In grant AH/H008306/1, we began to understand Old Hispanic chant's musical language systematically, especially the cadences. We identified characteristic cadence gestures, and how they are adapted to different numbers of syllables and (sometimes) accent patterns. We also explored how melodic pacing interacts with text: there are often many notes on theologically important words, directing participants' meditations towards those words and ideas. AimsWe will significantly increase the cultural impact of these research findings, through: digital exhibitions; public workshops in Madrid and Coimbra; incorporation of Old Hispanic chant data in www.cantusdatabase.org (the flagship digital archive of ecclesiastical manuscript contents); explanatory Youtube videos; and promotion of our online transcription and analysis software.We will reconnect locals who visit archives and museums in Lamego, Coimbra, Madrid, León and Valencia with this almost-forgotten aspect of their cultural heritage, as well as reaching out to tourists. An interactive digital exhibition will combine with display - in their home institutions - of some fragmentary manuscripts. The exhibition, co-produced with the five institutions, will raise consciousness of Old Hispanic liturgy, the broad outlines of its history generally, and the history of these fragments in particular. We will also introduce the general public to some of our melodic findings, through a beginners' guide to reading the notations, and a primer to help people recognise cadence shapes and appreciate how the melody paces and parses the text. Some exhibition materials will be presented in short videos, also posted on Youtube (further broadening the potential reach). All exhibition materials will be presented in English, Spanish and Portuguese.Old Hispanic material will be included in www.cantusdabatase.org for the first time. As well as academics, this is the first port of call for choirmasters and amateur chant/liturgy enthusiasts, who may be struck by the liturgical and theological distinctiveness of the Old Hispanic chants and want to explore further: we will add links to our web-based Chant Editing and Analysis Program, where they will find the digital exhibition and our transcription and analysis tools. We will use social networking and communicate with special interest groups to spread knowledge of our activities. Potential applications and benefitsWe will engage audiences in ways that go far beyond superficial appreciation of the beauty and antiquity of the materials. The benefits are cultural: certainly aesthetic and historical, likely giving people the joy of spotting meaningful patterns across initially incomprehensible signs, and (for some) devotional and spiritual as well. Although it is little known nowadays, the Old Hispanic liturgy is theologically and musically complex; the sophistication of the liturgies put together for individual feasts and for whole seasons bears comparison with other treasures of the medieval age. The proposed activities allow a large number of people to engage with this cultural treasure.We will develop a network of new Iberian partners, with whose institutions we will explore the possibility of similar knowledge transfer in future, on the innovative model proposed here. Our longterm aim is a three-way collaboration between our analytical software, www.cantusdatabase.org and SIMSSA (McGill University, in the opening phase of developing optical neume recognition software). The proposed project brings together the two parts of this research that are ready for public use, while continuing to develop three-way dialogue with SIMSSA.