"The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. Composers sometimes asked singers to read the music in unusual ways-backward…
"The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. Composers sometimes asked singers to read the music in unusual ways-backward…
CD contains examples of Gregorian, Roman, and Frankish chant.
Taking up questions and issues in early chant studies, this volume of essays addresses some of the topics raised in James McKinnon's The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass, the last book before his untimely death in February 1999. A distinguishe…
CD contains examples of Gregorian, Roman, and Frankish chant.
CD contains examples of Gregorian, Roman, and Frankish chant.
Dai cicli medievali all'Ariosto. In questo libro, senza forzature ideologiche ed evitando la tentazione di confezionare quadri storici confortanti ma artificiosi, si tenta di dar conto del cospicuo e multiforme materiale letterario che nel corso di oltre tre secoli anonimi cante…
