Source Readings in Music History (Volume 2): The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages (Revised Edn)

Strunk, O and Treitler, L (eds)

ISBN 10: 039396695X / ISBN 13: 9780393966954

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

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Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:9780393966954. Seller Inventory # 9297072

Bibliographic Details

Title: Source Readings in Music History (Volume 2):...

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis:

In The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages, we witness the merger of musica, then an abstract academic enterprise, and cantus, or practical music. The volume spans a millennium of writings, ranging from scriptural commentaries by St. Jerome and other fourth-century Church Fathers to an excerpt from Speculum musicae, an extensive fourteenth-century treatise by Jacques of Liège. Along the way we read from the works of St. Augustine, Boethius, Hildegard of Bingen, Guido of Arezzo, Franco of Cologne, and a score of others, all in impeccable English translations prepared or revised by James McKinnon.

About the Author:

Leo Treitler, Distinguished Professor of Music at the City University of New York, is the author of Music and the Historical Imagination, as well as other books and articles on music historiography and medieval music.