The Christian west and its singers
Subtitle: the first thousand years
By: Christopher Page.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780300112573
Subjects: Church music -- To 500; Church music -- 500-1400
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A prospect of the sea : communications and the spread of Christianity; title: The god of the household and his music; title: Echoes of Christian music at community meals and elsewhere; title: Psaltes and lector : towards a ministry of singing; title: Lectors in Rome and elsewhere; title: The psalmody of urban house-ascetics; title: Deacons as readers and psalmists in the fourth and fifth centuries; title: A new political order, and two singers from sixth-century Gaul; title: Schooling to silence the layman's voice; title: Ministers of music in the sixth-century kingdoms : deacons and cantors; title: Schooling singers in the cathedrals : 450-650; title: Schooling singers in Rome; title: Steering in distant waters by the roman lighthouse; title: Pippin and his singers I; title: Pippin and his singers II : music for a Frankish-Roman imperium; title: Singers of the ninth century : Metz and the palatine chapel; title: Singers, sounds and symbols; title: Composing for singers 900-1100; title: 'In our time, of all men, singers are the most foolish' : Guido of Arezzo and the invention of the stave; title: Bringing singers to book : Rudolf of St. Truiden and Guido's invention; title: Singers and the making of Europe.