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The Study of Medieval Chant - Paths and Bridges, East and West. In Honor of Kenneth Levy (Hardcover)
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The Study of Medieval Chant - Paths and Bridges, East and West. In Honor of Kenneth Levy (Hardcover)
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Comparative studies of medieval chant traditions in western Europe,
Byzantium and the Slavic nations illuminate music, literacy and
culture. Gregorian chant was the dominant liturgical music of the
medieval period, from the time it was adopted by Charlemagne's
court in the eighth century; but for centuries afterwards it
competed with other musical traditions, local repertories from the
great centres of Rome, Milan, Ravenna, Benevento, Toledo,
Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Kievan Rus, and comparative study of
these chant traditions can tell us much about music, liturgy,
literacy and culture a thousand years ago. This is the first
book-length work to look at the issues in a global, comprehensive
way, in the manner of the work of Kenneth Levy, the leading
exponent of comparative chant studies. It covers the four most
fruitful approaches for investigators: the creation and
transmission of chant texts, based on the psalms and other sources,
and their assemblage into liturgical books; the analysis and
comparison of musical modes and scales; the usesof neumatic
notation for writing down melodies, and the differences wrought by
developmental changes and notational reforms over the centuries;
and the use of case studies, in which the many variations in a
specific text or melodyare traced over time and geographical
distance. The book is therefore of profound importance for
historians of medieval music or religion - Western, Byzantine, or
Slavonic - and for anyone interested in issues of orality and
writing in the transmission of culture. PETER JEFFERY is Professor
of Music History, Princeton University. Contributors: JAMES W.
McKINNON, MARGOT FASSLER, MICHEL HUGLO, NICOLAS SCHIDLOVSKY, KEITH
FALCONER, PETER JEFFERY, DAVID G.HUGHES, SYSSE GUDRUN ENGBERG,
CHARLES M. ATKINSON, MILOS VELIMIROVIC, JORGEN RAASTED+, RUTH
STEINER, DIMITRIJE STEFANOVIC, ALEJANDRO PLANCHART.
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