The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of Fren…
The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in this engaging and literate study. The author traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at So…
Bergeron follows the technological development of the Gregorian restoration over a seventy-year period as it passed from the private performances of a monastic choir into the public commodities of printed books, photographs, and Gramophone records. Along the way she discusses su…