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The CODEX session
allows the exploration at various levels of all the Gregorian repertoire
of the Mass and Office of the hours for the entire liturgical year. Through
the main menu of the session you can either choose one of the chorales
(divided into Graduals and Antiphonaries) or access the ESECUTIO area
through the appropriate button. |
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Once one of
the chorales has been chosen, it will be possible to scroll each page
as a real manuscript through the use of the ARROW button on the sides
of the reproduction, or by digitising the number of the page in the box
at the bottom left hand corner and by confirming with the OK or Enter
key on the keyboard. Clicking on the left key of the mouse on the reproduction
you will be able to activate the zoom function that can be removed with
the right key. The ESECUTIO button is active on the pages of the Mass
and the Liturgy of the hours of Saint Michael the Archangel: clicking
on it will enable you to listen to the musical excerpt on the selected
page. Through the CODEX TABLE you will be able to see the codex table
of the manuscript. The STUDIUM button allows the access to the musicological
and liturgical study of the manuscripts. |
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Choosing one
of the entries on the left of the manuscript you will visualise in a box
all the information referring to the musical excerpts on the page. Through
the UP/DOWN ARROWS key you can scroll the data which refer to each musical
excerpt, while clicking on the MUSIC button you will be able to listen
to the digital version of the incipits and explicits of the alphanumeric
strings which refer to the musical excerpts on the page. You can then
return to the previous visualisation clicking on the CLOSE button. |
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Clicking on the
LENS button the MUSICAL EXCERPT TABLE area will be activated. In this
area there is a summary of all the information referring to each excerpt.
The UP/DOWN ARROWS key allows the scrolling of the pages while the PAGE
key allows an easy passage from one page to another. You can go back to
the previous visualisation with the CLOSE button. |
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The STUDIUM session
allows the musicological and liturgical study of the manuscripts and it
is articulated in five areas: the first one contains the glossary of he
technical words and abbreviations, the others quote the liturgical and
musical structure of the Mass and the Office. |
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The glossary
contains a useful explanation of all the abbreviations and technical terms
used in the "action", "structure" and "notes" fields of the CODEX session
or in the STUDIUM session. You can also access this area through the QUOD
session. |
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In the liturgical
structure, we have quoted the integral text of the Mass and the Office
for the day of the Dedication of Saint Michael the Archangel (29 September).
Scrolling the text of the Mass and the Office (the latter is divided into
sections which correspond to the hours of the day, or to parts of the
matins) in English and Latin, you will notice the abbreviations which
identify each musical excerpt. In the reconstruction of the Office, we
have chosen to add the psalms based on the version of the Roman Psalter
which was still in use in Stroncone in XIV century. |
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In the musical
structure , we have quoted the integral musical text of the Mass and the
Office for the day of the Dedication of Saint Michael the Archangel included
in the original Chorales of Stroncone in tetragram and in the modern version
on pentagram. If the EXSECUTIO button is active you will be able to listen
to the musical excerpts. The vertical arrows enable you to scroll the
lines of the tetragram and of the corresponding pentagram, while the ARROW
key allows the scrolling of the pages. |
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The EXSECUTIO
area gives you the possibility to listen to the digital excerpts on the
CD ROM (the songs of the Mass and three antiphonal songs for the Office
for Saint Michael the Archangel) and to visualise at the same time the
sung text. Through the use of the keyboard it will be possible to reproduce,
pause and quickly run through the musical excerpts. On the top right hand
corner of the parchment we have quoted the book and the paper of the musical
excerpts which is being performed. |
