NEW PUBLICATION: Ritus canendi vetustissimus et novus

Johannes Gallicus of Namur (†1473), a Carthusian monk and author of the treatise Ritus canendi vetustissimus et novus (1458–1464), embodies the figure of a rigorous yet pragmatic reformer of musical education. His intellectual profile is the product of a unique education in the 15th-century musical landscape, developed between the ecclesiastical schools of Wallonia and Vittorino da Feltre's Ca' Zoiosa , which was also decisively influenced by the spiritual and cultural orientations of the Carthusian Order. The Ritus canendi, presented by Giacomo Pirani in a new critical edition preceded by a comprehensive introduction on the author's life—now enriched by a previously unpublished series of documentary testimonies—and musical thought, is the manifesto of a reform in the method of learning liturgical chant aimed at restoring the ideal balance between theory and practice achieved between the age of Boethius (6th century) and that of Guido of Arezzo (11th century). The appendix also includes the texts, critically examined for the first time, of two short treatises on arithmetic by Gallico, demonstrating the important role the theorist assigned to mathematical instruction in the musical curriculum as well. This edition is published as volume 23 in the series La Tradizione Musicale. Studi e testi, published by SISMEL - Edizioni di Galluzzo (ISBN 978-88-9290-345-6)

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