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Oral and Written Transmission in Chant (Hardcover, New edition)
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Oral and Written Transmission in Chant (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Music in Medieval Europe
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The writing down of music is one of the triumphant technologies of
the West. Without writing, the performance of music involves some
combination of memory and improvisation. Isidore of Seville
famously wrote that "unless sounds are remembered by man, they
perish, for they cannot be written down". This volume deals with
the materials of chant from the point of view of transmission. The
early history of chant is a history of orality, of transmission by
mouth to ear, and yet we can study it only through the use of
written documents. Scholars of medieval music have taken up the
ideas and techniques of scholars of folklore, of oral transmission,
of ethnomusicology; for the chant is, in fact, an ancient music
transmitted for a time in oral culture; and we study a culture not
our own, whose informants are not people but manuscripts. All
depends, ironically, on deducing oral issues from written
documents.
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