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了许多社区的名称，如加利、弗朗西、阿莱曼尼、条托尼奇、伦巴迪、意大利等。这些名称基于非常不同的概念。当代的术语，如氏族、国家、人民或公民等等，只是含糊地描述了决定这些称谓的语言、意识形态、政治、地区和其他因素的混合。它们在音乐理论著作中分布如此广泛，系统的解读将极大地提高我们对中世纪音乐著作的理解。该研究项目仅限于音乐理论来源。它旨在解释用来指定社区的术语以及使用这些术语的意图。除了解释作品本身的名称及其功能外，该项目还通过将音乐理论著作的地理和文化模式与我们对音乐实践中的地区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如何相关的问题。该项目以跨学科分配为前提，并与相关学科，特别是历史联系在一起，因为它专注于中世纪共同体意识的建设、身份认同等主题，甚至可能有助于探索民族主义的成长。

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.