The Cultural Context of Medieval Music
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The Cultural Context of Medieval Music

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Cultural Context of Medieval Music

About this book

An urgently needed guide to understanding medieval music to be used as a text for the university undergraduate, graduate students in music and interdisciplinary medieval studies, and for the professional musicologist and medievalist. This book will also be appreciated by everyone interested in early music. Nancy van Deusen's The Cultural Context of Medieval Music addresses the mental landscape surrounding music that, especially, was sung and experienced in the Middle Ages. Largely anonymous in its composition, and apparently lacking the motivation of fame and commerce, music within a well thought-out system of education served a purpose that goes far beyond casual entertainment or personal professional advancement. Offering experience through performance, music exemplified the basic principles not only of the material and possible measurements of the visible world—such as of objects, relationships, and movement—but also of the invisible materials of sound and time, making it an ideal medium for working with unseen substances such as concepts, imaginations, and ideas. St. Augustine in the late fourth century reinforced the importance of music for the process of learning when he wrote that nothing could be truly understood without music. This book shows how this, in fact, is the case—a message of great relevance today.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780275994129
eBook ISBN
9781573569965
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Classical Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Preface: Music, Devotion, Emotion, and Intellection
  8. 1. Introduction: Principles, Vocabulary, Concepts
  9. 2. Music in a Culture of the Mind: A Medieval View of Resources, Material, and Composition
  10. 3. What Did This Medieval “Forest” Contain? Preexistent Substance, Unlimited Possibilities
  11. 4. Music within the Context of Medieval Education
  12. 5. Silva : Inner and Outer Substance, Music, and Material Culture
  13. 6. “They All Read the Same Books”: A Book-Bag from Antiquity
  14. 7. Musica disciplina : Analogies and Explanations
  15. 8. Music at the Forefront of Science: The Usefulness of Medieval Music
  16. Editions: Music to Sing
  17. Glossary of Terms
  18. Selected Bibliography
  19. Index