Research Catalog

Title

City, chant, and the topography of early music / edited by Michael Scott Cuthbert, Sean Gallagher, Christoph Wolff.

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Wolff, Christoph
• Cuthbert, Michael Scott
• Gallagher, Sean, 1965-
• Kelly, Thomas Forrest
• City, chant, and the topography of early music (2009 : Harvard University)

Description

xi, 355 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• Isham library papers ; 8
• Harvard publications in music ; 23

Uniform Title

• Isham library papers ; 8.
• Harvard publications in music ; 23.

Subject

• Gregorian chants > History and criticism
• Music > History and criticism
• Music > Social aspects

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Papers presented at a conference of the Harvard Music Department, Oct. 2-4, 2009.
• In honor of Thomas Forrest Kelly.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I : First nights : early music in Paris and Rome. Quantification in Medieval Paris and how it changed Western music / Craig Wright ; First nights in Baroque Rome : Stefano Landi's Sant' Alessio / Iain Fenlon ; Berlioz's first nights / Peter Bloom -- Part II : The musical traditions and influence of Benevento. Surge, Petre! Sets of chants for St. Peter in Benevento, Peterborough, and some places in between / David Hiley ; The genealogy according to St. Luke in Beneventan Dalmatia : does the scribe help the singer? / Katarina Livljanić ; Beneventan music and Gregorian modality : evidence of modal change in the melodic fund of the old Beneventan chant / Matthew G. Peattie ; Easter Vigil Canticles from Italy / Andreas Pfisterer -- Part III : The persistence of chant and of "Medieval" music. Echoes from the periphery : Rask 98, modal change, and oral transmission in seventeenth-century Iceland / Árni Heimir Ingólfsson ; Reproducing the Middle Ages in Eighteenth-Century Toledo / Susan Boynton -- Part IV : Origins of forms and of ideas. Ways of singing hexameter in tenth-century Europe / Andreas Haug ; Beyond the boundaries of Roman-Frankish chant : Alcuin's de laude Dei and other early Medieval sources of Office chants / Susan Rankin -- Part V : French music in the middle ages. Un fragment de tropaire aquitain peu connu / Marie-Noël Colette ; The topography of music theory in Paris, 900-1450 / Michel Huglo, Barbara Haggh, with Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

ISBN

9780964031746

LCCN

^^2013006259

OCLC

• 828626844
• SCSB-9997093

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library