With voice and pen
Subtitle: coming to know medieval song and how it was made
By: Leo Treitler.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780199214761
Subjects: Vocal music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism.; Music and literature -- History -- To 1500.; Oral tradition -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-496) and index.
Table of contents: title: Medieval improvisation; title: Written music and oral music : improvisation in medieval performance; title: The Vatican organum treatise and the organum of Notre Dame of Paris : perspectives on the development of a literate music culture in Europe; title: "Peripheral" and "central"; title: On the structure of the Alleluia melisma : a Western tendency in Western chant(?); title: Homer and Gregory : the transmission of epic poetry and plainchant; title: "Centonate" chant : Übles Flickwerk or e pluribus unus?; title: Lingering questions about "oral literature"; title: The politics of reception : tailoring the present as fulfilment of a desired past; title: Oral, written, and literate process in the music of the Middle Ages; title: Observations on the transmission of some Aquitanian tropes; title: History and ontology of the musical work; title: The early history of music writing in the West; title: Reading and singing : on the genesis of Occidental music writing; title: Speaking of Jesus; title: Medieval music and language; title: The marriage of poetry and music in medieval song.