Source Readings in Music History Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages

Name: Source Readings in Music History Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780393966954

ISBN-10: 039396695X

ISBN-13: 9780393966954

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: James McKinnon, Leo Treitler, Oliver Strunk

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In The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages, we witness the merger of musica, then an abstract academic enterprise, and cantus, or practical music. The volume spans a millennium of writings, ranging from scriptural commentaries by St. Jerome and other fourth-century Church Fathers to an excerpt from Speculum musicae, an extensive fourteenth-century treatise by Jacques of Liege. Along the way we read from the works of St. Augustine, Boethius, Hildegard of Bingen, Guido of Arezzo, Franco of Cologne, and a score of others, all in impeccable English translations prepared or revised by James McKinnon. Book jacket.

Book details

List price: $26.30
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Notes and Abbreviations


Introduction



Early Christian Views of Music



St. Basil from Homily on the First Psalm



St. John Chrysostom from Exposition of Psalm 41



St. Jerome from Commentary on the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians



Niceta of Remesiana from On the Benefit of Psalmody



St. Augustine from the Confessions



Music as a Liberal Art



Boethius from Fundamentals of Music



Cassiodorus from Fundamentals of Sacred and Secular Learing



Isidore of Seville from the Etymologies



Chant and Liturgy in the Early Middle Ages



St. Benedict from the Rule of St. Benedict



Pseudo-Germanus Exposition of the Ancient Gallican Liturgy



Anonymous (8th Century) Ordo romanus XVII



Helisachar Letter to Archbishop Nidibrius of Narbonne



John the Deacon from Life of Gregory the Great



The Monk of St. Gall from Life of the Emperor Charles the Great



Hildegard of Bingen from Epistle 47: To the Prelates of Mainz



Music Theory and Pedagogy in the Middle Ages



Anonymous (9th Century) from the Musica enchiriadis



Anonymous (10th Century) from the Alia musica



Pseudo-Odo of Cluny Dialogue on Music



Guido of Arezzo Prologue to His Antiphoner



Guido of Arezzo Epistle Concerning an Unknown Chant



Anonymous (13th Century) Discantus positio vulgaris



Johannes de Garlandia from De musica mensurabili



Franco of Cologne Ars cantus mensurabilis



Aegidius of Zamora from Ars musica



Marchetto of Padua from Pomerium in arte musicae mensuratae



Jehan des Murs from Notitia artis musicae



Jacques of Liege from Speculum musicae


Index