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Al A T
antiphoner research
Ar E C E
Busto Arsizio
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Chant Tradition
chant transmission history
Class 1a
Class 1r
Commune Sanctorum
comparative liturgical traditions
De Sanctis
Early Music History
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G Ab E T
Gradual Verse
Gregorian Chant
L E Man
Liber Politicus
Liber Ponti
Libri Carolini
medieval chant scholarship overview
medieval liturgical music
N Al E
office psalmody analysis
Responsorial Psalms
Roman Chant
T Af
Vespers Psalms
western plainchant studies
WIM
yI A S
Younger Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754626329
- Weight: 1296g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Latin liturgical music of the medieval church is the earliest body of Western music to survive in a more or less complete form. It is a body of thousands of individual pieces, of striking beauty and aesthetic appeal, which has the special quality of embodying, of giving voice to, the words of the liturgy itself. Plainchant is the music that underpins essentially all other music of the middle ages (and far beyond), and is the music that is most abundantly preserved. It is a subject that has engaged a great deal of research and debate in the last fifty years and the nature of the complex issues that have recently arisen in research on chant are explored here in an overview of current issues and problems.
Thomas Kelly is Harvard College Professor and Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music, Harvard University, USA
