Music in the middle ages : with an introduction on the music of ancient times / by Gustave Reese.

"First edition."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-463) and "Record list" ( p. 465-479).

Pt. 1. Introduction : the music of ancient times. Southwest Asia and Egypt -- Greece and Rome -- Pt. 2. Western European monody to about 1300. The beginnings of Christian sacred chant and the growth of some of its chief branches : Syrian, Byzantine, Armenian, Coptic, and Ethiopian -- The growth of some of the chief branches of Christian chant--continued : Russian, Ambrosian, Mozarabic, and Gallican -- Gregorian chant : its history and notation -- Gregorian chant : its modal system and forms -- Secular monody : the Latin songs, the jongleurs, troubadours, and trouvères -- Secular monody continued : the early Minnesinger, the Laude and Geisslerlieder, English monody, Spanish monody -- Pt. 3. Polyphony based on the perfect consonances and its displacement by polyphony based on the third. The earlier stages of organum -- The rise of measured music and the development of its notation to Franco of Cologne (c. 1280) -- The culmination of the continental organum and discant in the 12th and 13th centuries : the organa, conductus, early motet, cantilena; methods of performance; instruments ; The 14th century : French music, French and Italian notation -- The 14th century : Italian, Spanish and German music ; Musica falsa; Instruments -- Polyphony in the British Isles from the 12th century to the death of Dunstable.