Summa Musice
Subtitle: A Thirteenth-Century Manual for Singers (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 30, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780521404204
Subjects: Vocal Music; Singing; Instruction and study; Early Music; Religion - Church Music; Religion - Worship - General; Music; Reference; Christian Rituals & Practice - General; General; Music / Ethnomusicology; Music theory--Early works to 1800; Early works to 1800; Instruction & Study - Voice; Gregorian chants; Music theory; Christianity - Ritual & Practice
First sentence: Like many writings of the Middle Ages, the Summa musice survives in a 'late' manuscript copied by a scribe whose interest in the material before him was partly that of a collector and antiquarian.