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Author Bergeron, Katherine.

Title Decadent enchantments : the revival of Gregorian chant at Solesmes / Katherine Bergeron.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 196 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series California studies in 19th century music ; 10
California studies in 19th century music ; 10.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index.
Summary Bergeron follows the technological development of the Gregorian restoration over a seventy-year period as it passed from the private performances of a monastic choir into the public commodities of printed books, photographs, and Gramophone records. Along the way she discusses such issues as architectural restoration and the modern history of typography.
Contents 1. Restoration and decay. Restoration. Imagining communities. Precious remains -- 2. Bibliophilia. Reforming the face. The face of Saint Gregory. Voices in print -- 3. Gregorian hands. From print to script. Making facsimiles. Getting real. Tradition, translation, memory. Science, technology, power -- 4. Writing, reading, singing. La methode Benedictine. Dom Pothier's ear. Dom Mocquereau's hands. Hieroglyphs. Phonography -- Postlude: legitimate imprints -- Past perfected -- Atypical editions.
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Subject Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes.
Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes.
Gregorian chants -- History and criticism.
Gregorian chants.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Bergeron, Katherine. Decadent enchantments. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998 0520210085 (DLC) 97024120 (OCoLC)37315261
ISBN 9780520919617 (electronic book)
0520919610 (electronic book)
0585176388 (electronic book)
9780585176383 (electronic book)
0520210085 (alkaline paper)