| Description |
xvi, 457 page : illustrations, music ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Music in medieval Europe ; [v. 2]
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Music in medieval Europe.
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| Note |
Essays and articles reprinted from a variety of sources. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt I. Music-writing -- The early history of music writing in the West / Leo Treitler -- De accentibus toni oritur nota quae dicitur neuma : prosodic accents, the accent theory, and the Paleofrankish script / Charles M. Atkinson -- -- pt II. Notation and performance -- Gregorian chant : the restoration of the chant and seventy-five years of recording / Mary Berry -- The Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra in Rome and the semiological school of Dom Eugène Cardine / Nino Albarosa -- The performance of plainchant : some preliminary observations of the new era / Lance W. Brunner -- -- pt III. Oral and written transmission -- Homer and Gregory : the transmission of epic poetry and plainchant / Leo Treitler -- "Centonate" chant : Übles Flickwerk or E pluribus unus? / Leo Treitler -- Evidence for the traditional view of the transmission of Gregorian chant / David G. Hughes -- Charlemagne's archetype of Gregorian chant / Kenneth Levy -- "Communications" concerning Levy and Hughes, above / Leo Treitler -- The debate about the oral and written transmission of chant / László Dobszay -- On Gregorian orality / Kenneth Levy -- The transmission of Western chant in the 8th and 9th centuries : evaluating Kenneth Levy's reading of the evidence / Emma Hornby -- Chant research at the turn of the century and the analytical programme of Helmut Hucke / Edward Nowacki -- Ways of telling stories / Susan Rankin -- Interrelationships among Gregorian chants : an alternative view of creativity in early chant / Theodore Karp. |
| Subject |
Gregorian chants -- History and criticism.
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Gregorian chants. |
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Musical notation -- History -- To 1500.
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Musical notation. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Transmission of texts.
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Transmission of texts. |
| Added Author |
Kelly, Thomas Forrest.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Oral and written transmission in chant. Farnham : Ashgate, c2009 (OCoLC)639832943 |
| ISBN |
9780754626268 cased |
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0754626261 cased |
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9780754628002 set |
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