The Sources Of Beneventan Chant

The Area Whose Capital Was The Southern Lombard City Of Benevento Developed A Culture Identified With The Characteristic Form Of Writing Known As The Beneventan Script, Which Was Throughout The Area And Was Brought To Perfection At The Abbey Of Montecassino In The Late Eleventh Century. This Repertory, Along With Other Now-vanished Or Suppressed Local Varieties Of Music, Give A Far Richer Picture Of The Variety Of Musical Practice In Early Medieval Europe Than Was Formerly Available. Thomas Forrest Kelly Has Identified And Collected The Surviving Sources Of An Important Repertory Of Early Medieval Music; This Is The So-called Beneventan Chant, In Southern Italy In The Early Middle Ages, Before The Adoption There Of The Now-universal Music Known As Gregorian Chant.