Translation, commentary and introductory article by Sergey Lebedev
Guido’s Micrologus (written between 1026 and 1030) is one of the most important and frequently cited treatises in the history of Western music theory. This publication contains a complete Russian translation of the Micrologus, with detailed commentaries, sheet music examples, and other illustrations. The numerous loci obscuri in Guido’s text and the ambiguity of his terminology necessitated giving the original text (based on the critical edition of J. M. Smits van Waesberghe) in parallel with the translation. The Appendix contains (also in bilingual form) an anonymous interpolation to Chapter 10 of Micrologus on the diesis which dates back to the 11th century. This is a rare example of a description of the practice of microtonal intervals in medieval plainchant. Both texts are published in Russian for the first time.
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