Western Plainchant A Handbook

Name: Western Plainchant A Handbook
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ISBN: 9780198165729

ISBN-10: 0198165722

ISBN-13: 9780198165729

Edition: 1993

Authors: David Hiley

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Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the wake of the Carolingian renaissance of the 8th and 9th centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced studies. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies which plainchant was designed to serve. All the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical…

Book details

List price: $275.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/9/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 758
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.69" long x 1.65" tall
Weight: 3.058
Language: English



Analytical table


List of illustrations


List of tables


List of music examples


Note on music examples


Abbreviations


Bibliography


Plaintchant in the Liturgy


Chant genres


Liturgical books and plainchant sources


Notation


Plates


Plainchant and early music theory


Plainchant up to the eighth century


The Carolingian century


Gregorian chant and other chant repertories


Persons and places


Reformations of Gregorian chant


The restoration of medieval chant


Index