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- catalog abstract ""Fully revised and updated, Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages. The author examines songs in particular - their design, their qualities and character, their expressive meanings, and their adaptation to their communal and ritual roles - and explores the chances for, and the obstacles to, our understanding of traditions that were alive a thousand years ago."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12976379.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Fully revised and updated, Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages. The author examines songs in particular - their design, their qualities and character, their expressive meanings, and their adaptation to their communal and ritual roles - and explores the chances for, and the obstacles to, our understanding of traditions that were alive a thousand years ago."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [483]-496) and index.".
- catalog description "Medieval improvisation -- Written music and oral music : improvisation in medieval performance -- The Vatican organum treatise and the organum of Notre Dame of Paris : perspectives on the development of a literate music culture in Europe -- Peripheral and central -- On the structure of the Alleluia melisma : a Western tendency in Western chant? -- Homer and Gregory : the transmission of epic poetry and plainchant -- Centonate chant : Übles Flickwerk or e pluribus unus? -- Lingering questions about oral literature -- The politics of reception : tailoring the present as fulfilment of a desired past -- Oral, written, and literate process in the music of the Middle Ages -- Observations on the transmission of some Aquitanian tropes -- History and ontology of the musical work -- The early history of music writing in the West -- Reading and singing : on the genesis of Occidental music writing -- Speaking of Jesus -- Medieval music and language -- The marriage of poetry and music in Medieval song.".
- catalog extent "xxx, 506 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0198166443".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "ML1402 .T73 2003".
- catalog subject "Music and literature History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "Music and literature.".
- catalog subject "Vocal music 500-1400 History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Medieval improvisation -- Written music and oral music : improvisation in medieval performance -- The Vatican organum treatise and the organum of Notre Dame of Paris : perspectives on the development of a literate music culture in Europe -- Peripheral and central -- On the structure of the Alleluia melisma : a Western tendency in Western chant? -- Homer and Gregory : the transmission of epic poetry and plainchant -- Centonate chant : Übles Flickwerk or e pluribus unus? -- Lingering questions about oral literature -- The politics of reception : tailoring the present as fulfilment of a desired past -- Oral, written, and literate process in the music of the Middle Ages -- Observations on the transmission of some Aquitanian tropes -- History and ontology of the musical work -- The early history of music writing in the West -- Reading and singing : on the genesis of Occidental music writing -- Speaking of Jesus -- Medieval music and language -- The marriage of poetry and music in Medieval song.".
- catalog title "With voice and pen : coming to know medieval song and how it was made / Leo Treitler.".
- catalog type "Compact discs. lcsh".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".