Anna Maria Busse Berger is Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis and the author of Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution (1993).

"'This complex and stimulating book is notably rich in its interdisciplinarity. Rather than remaining trammeled by a false dichotomy between the oral and the written, Berger takes the lead with Mary Carruthers and others to probe provocative questions of memory, memorization, and mnemonics. The best, and most appropriate, single word to describe Medieval Music and the Art of Memory is unforgettable.'" - Jan Ziolkowski, coeditor, with Mary Carruthers, of The Medieval Craft of Memory and editor of Dag Norberg's An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Latin Versification"

• Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Music Examples Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Prologue: The First Great Dead White Male Composer Part 1. The Construction of the Memorial Archive Chapter 2. Tonaries: A Tool for Memorizing Chant Chapter 3. Basic Theory Treatises Chapter 4. The Memorization of Organum, Discant, and Counterpoint Treatises Part 2. Compositional Process in Polyphonic Music Chapter 5. Compositional Process and the Transmission of Notre Dame Polyphony Chapter 6. Visualization and the Composition of Polyphonic Music Conclusion Bibliography Index

Anna Maria Busse Berger is Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis and the author of Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution (1993).

"'This complex and stimulating book is notably rich in its interdisciplinarity. Rather than remaining trammeled by a false dichotomy between the oral and the written, Berger takes the lead with Mary Carruthers and others to probe provocative questions of memory, memorization, and mnemonics. The best, and most appropriate, single word to describe Medieval Music and the Art of Memory is unforgettable.'" - Jan Ziolkowski, coeditor, with Mary Carruthers, of The Medieval Craft of Memory and editor of Dag Norberg's An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Latin Versification"

• Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Music Examples Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Prologue: The First Great Dead White Male Composer Part 1. The Construction of the Memorial Archive Chapter 2. Tonaries: A Tool for Memorizing Chant Chapter 3. Basic Theory Treatises Chapter 4. The Memorization of Organum, Discant, and Counterpoint Treatises Part 2. Compositional Process in Polyphonic Music Chapter 5. Compositional Process and the Transmission of Notre Dame Polyphony Chapter 6. Visualization and the Composition of Polyphonic Music Conclusion Bibliography Index