Music in the Medieval West / Margot Fassler.
| Author/creator | Fassler, Margot Elsbeth author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2014] |
| Copyright Date | ©2014 |
| Description | xix, 259, 70 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Western music in context : a Norton history Western music in context. ^A1192164 |
| Contents | The making of the Middle Ages. A case study: Ave Maria stella ; Medieval books and the spread of Christianity ; The art of memory -- Founders and foundations of Western music. Medieval musical traditions : before the written evidence. Egeria in Jerusalem: a pilgrim's view ; Jerusalem in the sixth and seventh centuries ; Psalms and hymns: translations, interpretations, and forms ; Boethius and the greeks: a scholar's view of antique music ; Reconstructing an early medieval harp -- Chant and the Carolingians. Frankish chant: myths and memory ; The frankish mass and its music ; The development of chant notation ; Early chant books and databases: mode and memory in the ninth century ; Modes and early theoretical understanding -- The office, the mass ordinary, and practices of troping. Music in monastic and secular churches ; Music for the office ; The mass ordinary and its tropes ; Commentaries on the alleluia ; Tropes from the workshop of Ademar of Chabannes -- Conquest and devotion in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Teaching and learning in the Late Romanesque. Ademar's description of a relic in action ; Creating characters through music: the sounds of the saints ; Teaching and learning in the eleventh century ; Organs and organum ; Teaching music at the turn of the twelfth century -- Conquest, changing tastes, and pilgrimage in the twelfth century. Music and conquest ; Normans on the move in England, Sicily, and Jerusalem ; Music and monasticism: Cluny in context ; Polyphonic repertories in southern france ; Medieval iberia in an age of reconquest -- Poet-composers in an age of the individual. Abelard and heloise: lovers and religious reformers ; The many facets of courtly love ; The first vernacular song repertory ; The aesthetics of the early gothic ; Victorine sequences as an art of memory ; Hildegard of Bingen: levels of meaning in song and drama -- Schools and urban sounds in the thirteenth century. "Then truly was the time of singing come". St. Francis and his followers ; The lives of students in song ; Songs and song collections from northern france: the trouveres ; Cantigas from medieval spain -- Music and learning in the thirteenth century. Music and the miraculous ; Learned music in the thirteenth-century paris ; The thirteenth-century motet -- Musicians and patrons in the fourteenth century. Music and narrative in fourteenth-century France. Music in court life at the time of the last Capetians ; Politics and the roman de fauvel ; Johannes de Muris, Philippe de Vitry, and the ars nova ; Guillaume de Machaut: narrative and memory ; The ars subtilior: music at the close of the fourteenth century in France -- Italy and England in the fourteenth century. Music of the trecento ; Sources of trecento music ; English song in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ; Late-fourteenth-century sacred music, with an emphasis on England -- On the edges. Frauenlob and German ministrelsy ; Religious women in the long fourteenth century ; Late medieval music in Spain and Iceland ; The global middle ages -- A medieval music primer. Sources ; Medieval notation ; Medieval music theory and practice ; The liturgy of the Roman Catholic church. |
| Abstract | This book imaginatively reconstructs the repertoire of the Middle Ages by drawing on a wide range of sources. In addition to highlighting the ceremonial and dramatic functions of medieval music (both sacred and secular), she pays special attention to the exchange of musical ideas, the development of musical notation and other methods of transmission, and the role of women in musical culture. The Western Music in Context series comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest senseas sounds notated, performed, and heardfocusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2013040323 |
| ISBN | 9780393929157 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0393929159 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Stock number | W W Norton & Co Inc, 800 Keystone Industrial Park, Scranton, PA, USA, 18512 SAN 202-5795 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML172 .F37 2014 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |