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A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music (Music: Scholarship & Performance)

 
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Synopsis

In this collection, by major performers and musicologists, individual chapters treat chant, organum, motet and cantilena, the polyphonic mass ordinary, non-liturgical monophony, four lyric forms after 1300 and liturgical and vernacular architecture. Other chapters address particular instruments or groups of instruments, followed by treatments on performance practice and chapters on theory.

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Review

I would recommend this book to all who have an interest in medieval music, thought and culture.May 2004 (Early Music)

About the Author

Ross W. Duffin is Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University. An international lecturer, he is widely known as the lively, informative host of National Public Radio’s "Micrologus: Exploring the World of Early Music."

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