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Music in the Middle Ages : with an introduction on the music of ancient times
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- Creator
- by Gustave Reese
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- English
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- New York : W.W. Norton, [1948?]
- [1948?], c1940
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- xvii, 502 pages : plates, music ; 24 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00599424
- "Record list": p. 465-480.
- Forms part of: David Lewis Crosby Collection.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-463).
- [Part] I. Introduction, The music of ancient times: Southwest Asia and Egypt -- Greece and Rome
- [Part] II. Western European monody to about 1300: The beginnings of Christian sacred chant and the growth of some of its chief branches : Syrian, Byzantine, Armenian, Coptic, and Ethiopian -- The growth of some of the chief branches of Christian chant, continued : Russian, Ambrosian, Mozarabic, and Gallican -- Gregorian chant : its history and notation -- Gregorian chant : its modal system and forms -- Secular monody : the Latin songs, the jongleurs, troubadours, and trouvères -- Secular monody, continued : the early Minnesinger, the Laude and Geisslerlieder, English monody, Spanish monody
- [Part] III. Polyphony based on the perfect consonances and its displacement by polyphony based on the third: The earlier stages of organum -- The rise of measured music and the development of its notation to Franco of Cologne (c. 1280) -- The culmination of the continental organum and discant in the 12th and 13th centuries: the organa, conductus, early motet, cantilena ; methods of performance ; instruments -- The 14th century: French music ; French and Italian notation -- The 14th century: Italian, Spanish and German music ; Musica falsa ; Instruments -- Polyphony in the British Isles from the 12th century to the death of Dunstable