Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance (Musical Performance and Reception) - Softcover

Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521037042 ISBN 13: 9780521037044

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The Modern Invention of Medieval Music A challenging book which questions how much is really known about the way medieval music sounded. Full description

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Review:

"This book is a good read for anyone who is interested in medieval music or has an interest in how history, particularly music history, is written and developed." Music Educators Journal

"Part histoiography and part reception history, this meticulously researched volume reminds readers that no attempt to re-create the music of the past is likely to avoid doing sos through perspectives that are decidedly embedded in the present. Highly recommended." Choice

"The Modern Invention of Medieval Music is n important book. It raises fundamental questions about the relation among music, performance, and historical writing. It belongs on the reading lists of every graduate course in musicological methods, and by extension in the hands of any musicologist interested in how and (more importantly) why we write about music. I cannot praise this book enough for its imagination, daring and élan. It is a book that hits us where we live." Current Musicology, Thomas Irvine

Book Description:

Medieval music has become hugely popular but it is largely a modern construct. The story of the reinvention of medieval music is told here - a story of individuals, the societies in which they worked, their tastes and beliefs, all interacting to remake a lost musical world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521037042
• ISBN 13: 9780521037044
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348