Schola Hungarica & Janka Szendrei & Laszlo - Adventus Domini (CD)

The source for this recording is the Graz 807 codex, a gradual from the early twelfth centuryThe source for this recording is the Graz 807 codex, a gradual from the early twelfth century, which several scholars believe to have been compiled in Klosterneuburg in the monastery of the Augustinian canons. Due to its various peculiarities it has often been the subject of scholarly research in the fields of codicology, liturgical history, music history, and art history, and in 1981 a facsimile edition of the codex was published as volume 19 of Paléographie musicale.In line with the Hirsau reforms, the Klosterneuburg Graduale was notated using a stave (Klosterneuburg notation), and consists of compound neumes. Also interesting is the formation of the stave: the lines are etched, and at the beginning of each line is a clef (but no custos), colouring is in red and yellow. Thanks to the staff notation in this codex we can recognize the second dialect of Gregorian chant (German or pentatonic), t