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Music in the Western World : a history in documents /

Title:
Music in the Western World : a history in documents /
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emerson College, New England Conservatory
Contents:
The heritage of antiquity: Orpheus and the magical powers of music (Ovid) -- Pythagoras and the numerical properties of music (Nicomachus) -- Plato's musical idealism -- Aristotle on the purposes of music -- The kinship of music and rhetoric (Quintilian) -- Music in temple and synagogue: the Judaic heritage (Bible, Philo of Alexandria) -- Music in the Christian churches of Jerusalem, c. A.D. 400 (Egeria) -- The Middle ages: The church fathers on psalmody and the dangers of unholy music (St. Basil, St. John Chrysostom, Origen of Alexandria, Eusebius of Caesarea, Honorius of Autun) -- The testimony of St. Augustine -- The tranmission of the classical legacy (Boethius , Shakespeare) -- Music as a liberal art (Cholia enchiriadis) -- Before notation (Isidore of Seville, St. Augustine, John the Deacon, Notker Blbulus, Costumal of St. Benigne) -- Embellishing the lutrgy (Nokter Babulus, Ethelwold) -- Musical notation and its consequences (Odo of Cluny, Guido of Arezzo, Chaucer) -- Music in courtly life (Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Roman de la rose) -- The emergence of polyphony (Aldhelm, Scotus Erigena, Hucbald, Regino of Prüm, Giraldus Cambrensis, Anon. IV, John of Salisbury -- The forms and pracices of music, c. 1300 (Johannes de Grocheo, Aegidius of Murino) -- The first musical Avant-Garde (Jean de Muris, Jacobus of Liège, John XXII, motet and madrigal texts) -- The life of Francesco Landini (Filippo Villani) -- A letter from Guillaume de Machaut.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
ML160 .M85 2008 – Available
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML160 .M85 2008 – Available