| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxiii, 566 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Norton introduction to music history
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [531]-551. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Historical introduction (to A.D. 1000) -- Christian liturgy to A.D. 1000 -- Gregorian chant: general characteristics -- The music of the offices -- The Roman mass -- Expansion of the liturgy in the later middle age: tropes and sequences -- Further expansion and embellishment of the liturgy -- The rise of polyphony -- The School of Notre Dame, I: organum -- The School of Notre Dame, II: conductus and motet -- Secular monophonic song, I: Latin and Provencal lyrics -- Secular monophonic song, II: the music of the Trouveres -- Secular monophonic song, III: diffusion of vernacular song in other countries of western Europe -- Sacred and secular polyphony in the thirteenth century -- The ars nova in France -- Liturgical polyphony in the fourteenth century -- Guillaume de Machaut -- The Italian ars nova -- Transition to the renaissance -- An English epilogue -- Appendices. |
| Subject |
Music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0393090906 |
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9780393090901 |
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