Summa Musice - A Thirteenth-Century Manual for Singers

Klappentext Christopher Page's book provides an edition of the Latin text taken from the only surviving original copy! together with an English translation. Zusammenfassung Christopher Page's 1991 book provides an edition of the Latin text taken from the only surviving original copy! together with an English translation. Both texts are copiously annotated and introduced by an authoritative and illuminating editorial commentary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Abbreviations; Intervallic notation in the Summa musice; 1. The authorship of the treatise; 2. The scope and character of the treatise; 3. Sources and metrics; 4. The text and the edition; Summa musice: the translation; Summa musice: the text; Textual notes and rejected readings; Sources, parallels, citations and allusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Annotated catalogue of chants; Index auctorum.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Page, Christopher (University of Cambridge) Page
• Assisted by: Christopher Page (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2007
• EAN: 9780521036023
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03602-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Musical Texts and Mo
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history