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The Christian west and its singers : the first thousand years / Christopher Page.

Page, Christopher, 1952-
2010
ML2902 .P34 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
The Christian west and its singers : the first thousand years / Christopher Page.
Author
Page, Christopher, 1952-
ISBN
9780300112573 (alk. paper)
0300112572 (alk. paper)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 692 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
Call Number
ML2902 .P34 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
782.3209
Summary
Beginning in the time of the New Testament, when Christians began to develop an art of ritual singing with an African and Asian background, Christopher Page traces the history of music in Europe through the development of Gregorian chant--a music that has profoundly influenced the way Westerners hear--to the invention of the musical staff, regarded as the fundamental technology of Western music. Page places the history of the singers who performed this music against the social, political and economic life of a Western Europe slowly being remade after the collapse of Roman power. --from publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Composing for singers 900-1100 II : courtliness and other modes
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Bringing singers to book : Rudolf of Sint Truiden and Guido's invention
Singers in the making of Europe.

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