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Author Berger, Anna Maria Busse.

Title Medieval music and the art of memory / Anna Maria Busse Berger.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 288 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-279) and index.
Contents Prologue : the first great dead white male composer -- The construction of the memorial archive -- Tonaries : a tool for memorizing chant -- Basic theory treatises -- The memorization of organum, discant, and counterpoint treatises -- Compositional process in polyphonic music -- Compositional process and transmission of Notre Dame polyphony -- Visualization and the composition of polyphonic music.
Summary Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorise such an enormous amount of music and how music composed in the mind rather than in writing has affected musical style, this text explores the impact of the art of memory on the composition and transmission of medieval music.
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Subject Music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism.
Music.
Chronological Term 500-1400
Subject Music -- 15th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 15th century
Subject Composition (Music) -- History.
Composition (Music)
History.
Memory.
Memory.
Chronological Term 500-1499
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Berger, Anna Maria Busse. Medieval music and the art of memory. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005 0520240286 (DLC) 2004016542 (OCoLC)55981645
ISBN 9780520930643 (electronic book)
0520930649 (electronic book)
1423731344 (electronic book)
9781423731344 (electronic book)
9780520240285 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520240286 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1598758039
9781598758030