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With voice and pen : coming to know medieval song and how it was made /

Title:
With voice and pen : coming to know medieval song and how it was made /
Author:
Treitler, Leo, 1931-
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
Contents:
Medieval improvisation -- Written music and oral music : improvisation in medieval performance -- The Vatican organum treatise and the organum of Notre Dame of Paris : perspectives on the development of a literate music culture in Europe -- Peripheral and central -- On the structure of the Alleluia melisma : a Western tendency in Western chant? -- Homer and Gregory : the transmission of epic poetry and plainchant -- Centonate chant : Übles Flickwerk or e pluribus unus? -- Lingering questions about oral literature -- The politics of reception : tailoring the present as fulfilment of a desired past -- Oral, written, and literate process in the music of the Middle Ages -- Observations on the transmission of some Aquitanian tropes -- History and ontology of the musical work -- The early history of music writing in the West -- Reading and singing : on the genesis of Occidental music writing -- Speaking of Jesus -- Medieval music and language -- The marriage of poetry and music in Medieval song.

Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML1402.T74 W5Available
New England Conservatory Spaulding Desk
CD ML1402.T74 W5Available