A Late Fifteenth-Century Portuguese Plainchant Treatise

Authors

  • Harvey L. Sharrer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.57885/rpmns.215

Abstract

This paper presents a complete edition of a recently discovered two-part Portuguese plainchant treatise, dated 1494, which is preserved in the Biblioteca Pública in Évora — Cód. CCXIII/1-40. The combined texts represent the earliest known Portuguese vernacular manual on plainchant and reveal much in common with earlier 15th-century Spanish plainchant treatises.

Author Biography

Harvey L. Sharrer

HARVEY SHARRER, Chair of Romance Literature at the University of California in Santa Barbara (Department of Spanish and Portuguese), received his doctorate at Los Angeles, and a honorary doctorate at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2003. He has specialized in medieval Iberian literature, and published especially on the Arthurian epics and their ramifications. He formed part of the team that compiled the important BITAGAP work, which led him to discover the fragments of the Cantigas de amor of Dom Denis in the Torre do Tombo.

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Published

2014-12-20

How to Cite

Sharrer, H. L. (2014). A Late Fifteenth-Century Portuguese Plainchant Treatise. Portuguese Journal of Musicology, 101–130. https://doi.org/10.57885/rpmns.215

Issue

Vol 14/15 (2004-2005)

Section

Articles (peer-reviewed)