The Modern Invention of Medieval Music
Subtitle: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance (Musical Performance and Reception)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780521037044
Subjects: Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600); Techniques of music; Music; Music/Songbooks; History & Criticism - General; Medieval; History : Medieval; Music / General; Music / History & Criticism; General; 20th century; 500-1400; History and criticism; Performance practice (Music)
First sentence: Anyone interested in early music, unless they are British and under about twenty-five, will have grown up with the idea that medieval polyphony uses instruments, and lots of them: in songs they play the tenor and contratenor, often join the singer of the cantus in unison or at the octave; in sacred music they play the cantus firmus and accompany the voices singing the other parts.