TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reese,Gustave
TI  - Music in the middle ages: with an introduction on the music of ancient times 
AV  - ML172 .R4 1948
PY  - 1940///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Music
KW  - 500-1400
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - To 500
N1  - "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
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