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“The most famous of their early medieval narratives in Old English is the tale of Beowulf.”
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“Heliand means The Savior, and it’s a retelling of the story of Jesus.”
“Above the words of three short passages there are symbols that resemble an early form of musical notation.”
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“The symbols floating above the text are more like shorthand.”
“Beowulf is generally agreed to be the grandest and most complete of the surviving early Germanic poems.”
“They make it clear that one writer at least considered that early vernacular literature could have a musical dimension.”
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“It could be sung.”
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“They are lines of verse.”
“For him there’s no practical objection to adapting alliterative verse either to the lyre or to a regular meter.”
“The notes are known as neumes .”
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“It’s time now to take a closer look at music at an important moment of transition, to see how some of its very earliest written forms might play into the history and prehistory of performance.”
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“But about ten centuries ago, as the people of Schleswig were tuning up their bone flutes, something new happened.”
“Heliand is the work of an anonymous poet composing in the Old Saxon language during the early years of the ninth century.”
“Modern scholars have usually read them silently or, if reading aloud, declaimed them in a more or less theatrical manner.”
“This conservative approach has been encouraged in part by the blank verse, but also by a traditional reticence of scholars to take liberties with the evidence.”
“In the poet’s hands, Jesus has become a great warrior hero and war leader.”