"Lost" Scottish Musical Score Unearthed After 500 Years

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-09 21:47:37 | Updated at 2025-01-10 06:17:03 8 hours ago

"Lost" Scottish Musical Score Unearthed After 500 Years
Scitech Daily ^ | January 8, 2025 | University of Edinburgh

Posted on 01/09/2025 1:37:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv

A fragment of “lost” music, discovered within the pages of Scotland’s first full-length printed book, is offering valuable insights into the sound of music from five centuries ago.

Experts from Edinburgh College of Art and KU Leuven in Belgium have been examining the origins of this musical score—comprising just 55 notes—to shed light on early sixteenth-century, pre-Reformation Scottish music.

Researchers describe the find as a rare glimpse into the musical practices of Scottish religious institutions 500 years ago. Notably, it is the only surviving piece of music from this era originating in the northeast of Scotland.

The scholars made the discovery in a copy of The Aberdeen Breviary of 1510, a collection of prayers, hymns, psalms, and readings used for daily worship in Scotland, including detailed writings on the lives of Scottish saints. Known as the ‘Glamis copy’ as it was formerly held in Glamis Castle in Angus, it is now in the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Despite the musical score having no text, title or attribution, researchers have identified it as a unique musical harmonisation of Cultor Dei, a night-time hymn sung during the season of Lent.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: aberdeenbreviary; epigraphyandlanguage; glamiscastle; godsgravesglyphs; scotland; scotlandyet

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1 posted on 01/09/2025 1:37:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv

2 posted on 01/09/2025 1:38:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

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3 posted on 01/09/2025 1:38:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

To: SunkenCiv

how does it sound on the bagpipe?

4 posted on 01/09/2025 1:39:07 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )

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5 posted on 01/09/2025 1:39:36 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)

To: teeman8r

Hey, everything sounds better on the bagpipe. :^)

6 posted on 01/09/2025 1:40:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

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7 posted on 01/09/2025 1:41:38 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)

To: dfwgator

LOL! It’s a long way from the early 16th century to the late 1970s!

8 posted on 01/09/2025 1:43:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

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9 posted on 01/09/2025 1:45:05 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))

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10 posted on 01/09/2025 1:46:00 PM PST by Joe 6-pack

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11 posted on 01/09/2025 1:47:04 PM PST by Sacajaweau

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