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Although fragments from music manuscripts have occupied a place of considerable importance since the very early days of modern musicology, a collective, up-to-date, and comprehensive discussion of the various techniques and approaches for their study was lacking. On-line resources have also become increasingly crucial for the identification, study, and textual/musical reconstruction of fragmentary sources. Disiecta Membra Musicae. Studies in Musical Fragmentology aims at reviewing the state of the art in the study of medieval music fragments in Europe, the variety of methodologies for studying the repertory and its transmission, musical palaeography, codicology, liturgy, historical and cultural contexts, etc. This collection of essays provides an opportunity to reflect also on broader issues, such as the role of fragments in last century’s musicology, how fragmentary material shaped our conception of the written transmission of early European music, and how new fragments are being discovered in the digital age. Known fragments and new technology, new discoveries and traditional methodology alternate in this collection of essays, whose topics range from plainchant to ars nova and fifteenth- to sixteenth-century polyphony.

FrontmatterI

ContentsV

Overview

Polyphonic Fragments: Destruction, Recovery, Reconstruction9
by Margaret Bent

Models

Processional Chants in the Early Medieval Period: The Lesson of Fragments39
by Susan Rankin

Some Medieval Relics of Saints’ Plainchant Offices77
by David Hiley

Trails

Music Fragments from Slovenia:
Towards a Reconstruction of the Medieval Plainchant Manuscript Production97
by Jurij Snoj

Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century in Aragon:
Reassessing a Panorama of Fragmentary Sources117
by David Catalunya

Fragments of Local Polyphony in Late Medieval Central Europe:
Towards a Semiotic Interpretation of Musical Sources165
by Paweł Gancarczyk

Receivers

Make Do and Mend: Reworking Liturgical Parchment Manuscripts in Post-Reformation Sweden 185
by Sanna Raninen

The Aesthetics of Fragments: Reading Pastedowns in Context or, Late Medieval Bookbinders, Readers, and Their Choices205
by Karl Kügle

Representations

A Collection of Fragments, or a Fragment of a Collection?
The Musical Appendix of A-Wn Cod. 5094 241
by Reinhard Strohm

The Unexpected Song: An Early Italian Vernacular Poem, a Neumatic Notation, and How to
Detect Their Interrelationships in the Ravenna Charter 263
by Daniele Sabaino

Processes

Fragmenta Manuscriptorum Musicalium Hungariae Mediaevalis:
From Traditional Methodologies Towards a Digital Corpus 301
by Zsuzsa Czagány

Restoration, Reconstruction, and Revisionism: Altering Our Virtual Perception of Damaged Manuscripts 323
by Julia Craig-McFeely

Index of Manuscripts and Fragments 369

Index of Chants and Compositions 375

General Index383