Title: WITH VOICE AND PEN: COMING TO KNOW MEDIEVAL SONG AND HOW IT WAS MADE
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.
Subjects: Music and literature, Vocal music, history and criticism, Vocal music, History and criticism, History