With Voice and Pen

Coming to Know Medieval Song and How it Was Made

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

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, their qualities and character, their expressive meanings, and their adaptation to their communal and ritual roles - and explores the chances for, and the obstacles to, our understanding of traditions that were alive a thousand years ago. Ranging from c. 900 (when the written transmission of medieval songs began) to 1200, Treitler shows how the earlier, purely oral traditions can be examined only through the lens of what has been captured in writing, and focuses on the invention and uses of writing systems for representing these oral traditions. Each of these seminally influential essays has been revised to take account of recent developments, and is prefaced with a new introduction to highlight the historical issues. The accompanying CD contains performances of much of the music discussed.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-01-25
Mått:156 x 233 x 27 mm
Vikt:945 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:548
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199214761

Utforska kategorier

Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur

Recensioner i media

Leo Treitler is simply one of the most interesting and influential American musicologists of his generation, and this astonishing collection of his essays is teeming with insights into some of the central problems of our contemporary musical world and its culture.

Innehållsförteckning

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 and Gregory: The Transmission of Epic Poetry and Plainchant ; 7. 'Centonate' Chant: Ubles Flickwerk or e pluribus unus? ; 8. Lingering Questions about 'Oral Literature' ; 9. The Politics of Reception: Tailoring the Present as Fulfilment of a Desired Past ; 10. Oral, Written, and Literate Process in the Music of the Middle Ages ; 11. Observations on the Transmission of Some Aquitanian Tropes ; 12. History and the Ontology of the Musical Work ; 13. The Early History of Music Writing in the West ; 14. Reading and Singing: On the Genesis of Occidental Music-Writing ; 15. Speaking of Jesus ; 16. Medieval Music and Language ; 17. The Marriage of Poetry and Music in Medieval Song