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Strunk's Source Readings in Music History: The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages

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Strunk's Source Readings in Music History: The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages - Treitler, Leo (General editor), and McKinnon, James (Editor)
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In The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages, we witness the merger of musica, then an abstract academic enterprise, and cantus, or practical music. The volume spans a millennium of writings, ranging from scriptural commentaries by St. Jerome and other fourth-century Church Fathers to an excerpt from Speculum musicae, an extensive fourteenth-century treatise by Jacques of Liege. Along the way we read from the works of St. Augustine, Boethius, Hildegard of Bingen, Guido of Arezzo, Franco of Cologne, and a score of ...

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Strunk's Source Readings in Music History: The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages 1998, WW Norton & Co, New York

ISBN-13: 9780393966954

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