{"id":147,"date":"2014-05-19T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2014-07-30T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:50:05","slug":"nato-canunt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/unchained-medieval-melodies\/nato-canunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nato canunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/05\/Nato-canunt-9-July-2014.pdf\">Neumatized sequence: <em>Nato canunt<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-147-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Nato-Canunt.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Nato-Canunt.mp3\">https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/files\/2014\/04\/Nato-Canunt.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas sequence was sung widely throughout medieval Western Europe, and its text speaks of the rejoicing of the angels at Christ\u2019s birth. The melody has a very regular form making it easy to sing and memorize.<\/p>\n<p>Several later medieval sources from northern France refer to the \u201cneumatization\u201d of <em>Nato canunt<\/em>. The French medieval music theorist Guy de Denis gives an interesting hint about why this particular sequence might have been chosen for neumatization. He cites four sequences (including <em>Nato canunt<\/em>) where individual verses received wordless repeats (\u201cneumas\u201d). In each case, the text of the verse included the word \u201cneumata.\u201d In fact, a number of the sequences neumatized at this period contain phrases referring to their unique means of construction (words joined with melody), or to the union of heavenly and human song. <em>Nato canunt<\/em> exemplifies these themes clearly. The sequence\u2019s second verse \u2013 expressly cited by Guy de Denis \u2013 refers to the joining of \u201cwell-proportioned melismas, syllable by syllable.\u201d Furthermore, the entire sequence text is filled with references to angelic song; humankind is exhorted to join this heavenly rejoicing.<\/p>\n<p>The performance here employs selective neumatization, following the suggestion of Guy de Denis. Wordless repeats are cued by specific textual references to angelic (and human) song. Untexted phrases both echo &#8212; and foreshadow &#8212;\u00a0 sections of the texted melody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neumatized sequence: Nato canunt &nbsp; This Christmas sequence was sung widely throughout medieval Western Europe, and its text speaks of the rejoicing of the angels at Christ\u2019s birth. The melody has a very regular form making it easy to sing and memorize. Several later medieval sources from northern France refer to the \u201cneumatization\u201d of Nato&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-147","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/musicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}