Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Coming to Know Medieval Song and How It Was Made
Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
ISBN: 978-0-19-816644-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Leo Treitler's 17 essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages. Each of the essays has been revised to take account of developments. The accompanying CD contains performances of much of the music discussed.
Fully revised and updated, Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages. The author examines songs in particular - their design,
1. Medieval Improvisation; 2. Written Music and Oral Music; 3. The Vatican Organum Treatise and the Organum of Notre Dame of Paris; 4. 'Peripheral' and 'Central'; 5. On the Structure of the Alleluia Melisma: A Western Tendency in Western Chant; 6. Homer a
