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Zusatztext the Oxford History volumes are among the most heavily used of all books on music ... they have held their place as the first point of reference Klappentext Drawing on the work of leading British and American scholars! this revised volume presents an informed! timely picture of music from the fourth through the fourteenth century A.D. It begins with a discussion of Christian chant in the Mediterranean and goes on to cover Gregorian chant! liturgical drama! medieval song! instrumental music! and early polyphony down to the monumental organa composed at the cathedral of Notre Dame in the twelfth century. The new edition has been revised to incorporate the wealth of new research on early music done since Hughes's first edition was published in 1954! and includes over 200 musical examples and an exhaustive bibliography. Zusammenfassung A study of early Christian music in medieval western Europe, which surveys the repertoires of Byzantine and Roman chants. Summarized accounts of Syrian, Armenian, Coptic and Ethiopian chants are represented alongside the Christian chant by way of an introduction to other musical forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: CHRISTIAN CHANT OF THE EASTERN CHURCHES: Milos Velimirovic: Christian chant in Syria, Armenia, Egypt, and Ethiopia; Byzantine chant; PART II: CHRISTIAN CHANT OF THE WESTERN CHURCHES: Kenneth Levy: Latin chant outside the Roman tradition; Richard Crocker: Liturgical materials of Roman chant; Chants of the Roman office; Chants of the Roman Mass; PART III: MEDIEVAL MONOPHONY IN WESTERN EUROPE: Richard Crocker: Medieval chant; Susan Rankin: Liturgical drama; John Stevens: Medieval song; PART IV: MEDIEVAL POLYPHONY IN WESTERN EUROPE: Christopher Page: Instruments and Instrumental Music before 1300; Sarah Fuller: Early Polyphony; Janet Knapp: Polyphony at Notre Dame of Paris; Richard Crocker: French polyphony of the thirteenth century; Polyphony in England in the thirteenth century...
