At 06:56 PM 10/21/98 -0400, you wrote: > In the Burgerbibliothek in Bern, >in the Vatican and in the Bibliotheque >Nationale (Paris, now called Bibli de >France)--I have seen Virgil codices >bearing musical notation, suggesting >the text was sung at one point. --??
See also: Combarieu, Jules. Fragments de l’Énéide en musique d’après un manuscrit inédit: fac-similés phototypiques précédés d’une introduction. Paris: Alphonse Picard et fils, 1898. (Pamphlet: Reg. PA6826.C7 v. 32) (For the curious: the passages set to music were Aen. 2.42-40, 2.274-79, 2.81-87, 4.424-37, 4.651-59, and 12.945-45: "Les fragments mis en musique appartiennent tous a des discours directs (sauf les deux lignes de la derniere page, dont les neumes se semblent pas avoir ete traces par la meme main que les precedents, & deux mots a la pl[anche] 1) & a des discours tres pathetiques..." (p. 17). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://www.virgil.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Chicago Online Virgil discussion, bibliography & links ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
