Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (296 p.))
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511597268
Series Statement:
Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
Uniform Title:
Summa musice
Content:
How did medieval musicians learn to perform? How did they compose? What was their sense of the history and purpose of music? The Summa musice, a treatise on practical music from c.1200, sheds light on all these questions. It is a manual for young singers who are learning Gregorian chant for the first time, and provides a compact but comprehensive introduction to notation, performance and composition, written in a mixture of Latin prose and verse. More than that, however, it is also an introduction to medieval culture: what educated people believed to be worth knowing about music, how they reasoned when they discussed musical questions, the nature of musical thought and how it was expressed. Christopher Page's 1991 book provides an edition of the Latin text taken from the only surviving original copy, together with an English translation. Both texts are copiously annotated and introduced by an authoritative and illuminating editorial commentary
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521404204
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521036023
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The summa musice Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 1991 ISBN 0521404207
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521404204
Language:
English
Keywords:
Musiktheorie
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Geschichte 1200-1300
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Quelle
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511597268
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