Modern Invention of Medieval Music - Scholarship, Ideology, Performance

A challenging book which questions how much is really known about the way medieval music sounded.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The invention of the voices-and-instruments hypothesis; 2. The re-invention of the a cappella hypothesis; 3. Hearing medieval harmonies; 4. Evidence, interpretation, power and persuasion; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson is a writer and broadcaster on medieval music. He is Reader in Historical Musicology at King's College, London and his previous books include studies and editions of the fourteenth-century poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut.

Summary

Medieval music has become hugely popular but it is largely a modern construct. The story of the reinvention of medieval music is told here - a story of individuals, the societies in which they worked, their tastes and beliefs, all interacting to remake a lost musical world.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel (King''s College London) Leech-Wilkinson
• Assisted by: John Butt (Editor), Laurence Dreyfus (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2002
• EAN: 9780521818704
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81870-4
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Musical Performance and Recept
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history