Inhalt: | "Texts often occupy a central role within ritual practices. They serve as prescripts for the organization of the ritual or as an explanation of cosmological backgrounds, as records of ritual performance, or simply as items that are handled and recited during the performance itself. Musical texts may assume some of these roles within certain ceremonial procedures, especially in serving as prescripts for recitation, but also as ritual paraphernalia (for example, where collectors aer concerned). Most importantly, they may serve as records of the performance of those rituals in which music forms a central part, as is the case with opera productions. This volume aims to identify the mechanisms according to which texts, and especially musical texts, may become ritual agents in their own right. It assesses the value of such texts as sources for the reconstruction of rituals, and discusses questions of how ritual aspects of these texts may be represented in modern editions. While the main focus is on music, contributors from a variety of other fields concerned with textual studies (Egyptology, Classical and Modern Indology, Jewish and Islamic Studies) facilitate comparison between different types of texts, emphasizing different approaches to the subject"--Back cover Introduction / Hendrik Schulze -- Text and tradition. 'I bring many boxes filled with manuscripts on papyrus and big leather rolls ...' / Andreas H. Pries ; Ritual texts in Hindu initiation / Christof Zotter ; Performance sources of 'spoken' drama : incidental music on the nineteenth-century German stage / Antje Tumat ; Texts of musical practice--sources for interpretation and fragments of performances / Christa Brüstle ; From patronage to collectionism : dissemination of Roman cantata score in France / Alessio Ruffatti ; Roman cantatas manuscripts (1640-80) : a musical cabinet of curiosities / Christine Jeanneret -- Text and ritual. Ritual text and music in Turkish Alevism : dimensions of transmission and bearers of knowledge / Janina Karolewski ; Performing vows : rituals of transition in the nunneries of early modern Venice / Jonathan Glixon ; The symbolism of modal design / Gregory Barnett ; 'Every Friday evening music is performed in the Hall of Mirrors ...' Claudio Monteverdi and the rituals of courtly exchange in early seventeenth-century Italy / Tim Carter ; Rhythm, agency and divine presence in the Garwal Himalayas / Karin M. Polit -- Text as object. The Torah scroll and its function as a ritual object in Jewish culture / Hanna Liss ; Collecting opera scores in the seventeenth century--ritual aspects / Norbert Dubowy ; Seventeenth-century Roman cantata manuscripts as a source for a material history / Arnaldo Morelli ; The score on the shelf : valuing the anonymous and unheard / Margaret Murata ; Ritualistic vs transcendental work concept : editing operatic texts / Hendrik Schulze |
