An urgently needed guide to understanding medieval music to be used as a text for the university undergraduate, graduate students in music and interdisciplinary medieval studies, and for the professional musicologist and medievalist. This book will also be appreciated by everyone interested in early music.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface: Music, Devotion, Emotion, and Intellection 1 Introduction: Principles, Vocabulary, Concepts 2 Music in a Culture of the Mind: A Medieval View of Resources, Material, and Composition 3 What Did This Medieval "Forest" Contain? Preexistent Substance, Unlimited Possibilities 4 Music within the Context of Medieval Education 5 Silva: Inner and Outer Substance, Music, and Material Culture 6 "They All Read the Same Books": A Book-Bag from Antiquity 7 Musica disciplina: Analogies and Explanations 8 Music at the Forefront of Science: The Usefulness of Medieval Music Editions: Music to Sing Glossary of Terms Selected Bibliography Index
Nancy van Deusen is professor of music at The Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.
This is an excellent and in many ways important, much-needed book.
. . . One of the author's best accomplishments in this book is the
reestablishment of the idea of medieval music qua music and not
just as theoretical parlor game, as it is so often portrayed.
Summing Up: Highly recommended.
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