Novi modulaminis melos: the music of Heloise and Abelard

@article{Wulstan2002NoviMM,
  title={Novi modulaminis melos: the music of Heloise and Abelard},
  author={David Wulstan},
  journal={Plainsong and Medieval Music},
  year={2002},
  volume={11},
  pages={1 - 23}
}
  • D. Wulstan
  • Published 1 April 2002
  • History
  • Plainsong and Medieval Music
Recent developments have uncovered the early correspondence of Heloise and Abelard. This discovery has allowed the identification of a number of ‘lost’ lyrics by Abelard and has revealed that Heloise, too, was a lyricist of great stature. This article reviews some of their works and touches upon their connection with the ‘goliardic’ tradition, the Carmina Burana, and their influence upon Walther von der Vogelweide and other poets. The sequences and liturgical dramas of Heloise survive with… 
View on Cambridge Press
32 Citations

32 Citations

“New Music to the Very Ears of God”: Heloise the Composer
In 2002, David Wulstan reattributed five pieces of music previously attributed to Abelard to his wife Heloise based on the identification of their early love letters. These pieces, two liturgical…
Christians and heretics
This chapter discusses the principal archaeological remains, namely the large numbers of manuscript books which contain the church's views of the topic. It also shows how these groups were fashioned…
The bishops of Rome, 1100–1300
This chapter discusses the principal components of papal overlordship in the High Middle Ages and the criticisms levelled against overweening Roman might. The twelfth century witnessed the first…
Monastic and religious orders, c. 1100–c. 1350
This chapter shows that the twelfth and thirteenth centuries manifest an embarrassment of riches: the number, variety and development of monastic and religious orders in this period is overwhelming.…
Orality, Literacy, and the Early Notation of the Office Hymns
Abstract This article takes the early notation of the Office hymns as the framework for a new investigation of orality and literacy in musical notation. Of all chant genres, hymns remained an oral…
Troping Time: Refrain Interpolation in Sacred Latin Song, ca. 1140–1853
This article explores a practice in evidence across Europe from the twelfth to the nineteenth century involving the singing of a brief refrain within sacred Latin songs and hymns. Tracing the…
Repression and power
Book synopsis: During the early middle ages, Europe developed complex and varied Christian cultures, and from about 1100 secular rulers, competing factions and inspired individuals continued to…
On the margins of religious life: hermits and recluses, penitents and tertiaries, beguines and beghards
This chapter examines a diverse but important group of people who defy easy categorisation yet were all loosely associated with religious life. As hermits and recluses, lay 'penitents', beguines and…
Heaven, hell and purgatory: 1100–1500
Religious authorities, who were often political powers too, functioned at all levels, from the papacy to the parish, and also shaped personal attitudes towards heaven and hell. The chapter discusses…
Christendom and Islam
Given the great variety of Christian andMuslim cultures in the Middle Ages, it should not be surprising that relations between the two defy synthesis. The relationships to Islam of the many…
...
...