Music in the middle ages : with an introduction on the music of ancient times / By Gustave Reese.

Author/creator Reese, Gustave
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : W. W. Norton & company, [©1940]
Descriptionxvii, 502 pages : illustrations (music) viii plate (including facsimiles (music)) ; 24 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism. --Medieval, 400-1500.
Music--500-1400. --History and criticism.
Music--History and criticism. --To 400.
Music--To 500. --History and criticism.

Contents Introduction. The music of ancient times. Southwest Asia and Egypt ; Greece and Rome -- Western European monody to about 1300. The beginnings of Christian sacred chant and the growth of some of its chief branches: Syrian, Byzantine, Armenian, Coptic, and Ethiopian ; The growth of some of the chief branches of Christian chant--continued: Russian, Ambrosian, Mozarabic, and Gallican ; Gregorian chant: its history and notation ; Gregorian chant: its modal system and forms ; Secular monody: the Latin songs, the jongleurs, troubadours, and trouvères ; Secular monody continued: the early Minnesinger, the Laude and Geisslerlieder, English monody, Spanish monody -- Polyphony based on the perfect consonances and its displacement by polyphony based on the third. The earlier stages of organum ; The rise of measured music and the development of its notation to Franco of Cologne (c. 1280) ; The culmination of the continental organum and discant in the 12th and 13th centuries: the organa, conductus, early motet, cantilena; methods of performance; instruments -- The 14th century: French music, French and Italian notation ; The 14th century: Italian, Spanish and German music ; Musica falsa ; Instruments -- Polyphony in the British Isles from the 12th century to the death of Dunstable.
Abstract The most authoritative study of medieval music in any language, this book opens with a section devoted to what is known of music before the middle ages. It then deals with the background of Christian Chant and proceeds to treat separately -- among others -- the Syrian, Byzantine, Russian, Ambrosian, and Gregorian Chants. The history, notation, rhythm, modes, and forms of the last of these are discussed individually. Thereafter the author discusses secular monody in France, Germany, Italy, England, and Spain. The rest of the book is devoted to European polyphony from the 9th century to the death of Dunstable in 1453: the earlier stages of organum, the great music emanating from Notre Dame de Paris in the late 12th and early 13th centuries; French, Italian, Spanish, and German 14th-century polyphony, and polyphony in the British Isles, from the 12th to the middle of the 13th century. It reads as a continuing narrative but stresses consideration of musical style and includes a full bibliography and a list of phonograph records. -- From publisher's description.
General note"First edition."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 425-463) and "Record list" (pages 465-479).
LCCN 41000557

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