| Uniform title | Medioevo. English |
| Contents |
Volume 1. The origins of Christian worship; liturgy and chant. The evidence of the early Christian sources ; The Jewish roots of Christian worship ; The early forms of Christian chant ; Liturgy and chant after the Edict of Milan ; Hymnody -- Christian chant at Byzantium and in the western churches. Greco-Byzantine chant ; Old Roman (paleo-Roman) chant ; Ambrosian (Milanese) chant ; The ancient chant of Aquileia and Benevento ; Ancient Hispanic (Mozarabic) and Gallican chant ; Gregorian Chant. Gregory the Great ; The liturgy of the Western churches in the Carolingian period : Franco-Roman chant ; From oral tradition to neumatic notation ; Notation : problems of derivation and regional variation ; Neumes and their classification ; Neumes and words ; Neumes and Gregorian time ; Neumes and Gregorian rhythm ; Modal theory and structure ; Classical forms of the Gregorian repertory ; Decline and revival -- Liturgico-musical innovations of the ninth and tenth centuries and their development ; secular monody in Latin. Sequences ; Tropes ; Metrical and dramatic offices ; Liturgical drama ; Non-liturgical Latin monody -- Monody in vernacular languages ; Instruments; the Ars Musica. Troubadour and trouvere lyric ; Monody in the German-speaking countries, the Iberian peninsula and England ; Italian poetry : laude ; Musical instruments ; The ars musica in the middle ages ; The jubilus in St Augustine ; From the De institutione musica of Severinus Boethius ; From the Institutiones of Cassiodorus ; From the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville ; From the Epistola de ignoto cantu of Guido d'Arezzo ; An example of dramatised liturgy ; Evidence for musical customs in Italy ; From the Ars musica of Gill da Zamora. |
| Contents |
Volume 2. Thirteenth century. Music and grammar ; Music and rhetoric ; Music and poetics ; Organum at Notre-Dame ; The 'political' conductus ; The motet in French -- Fourteenth-century France. Ars ventus/ars nova ; Latin motets on 'political' topics ; Talea and colores ; 'Le noble rethorique...flour de melodies' ; From poetical to musical technique ; Ballades and rondeaux -- Fourteenth-century Italy. Padua ; The courts of 'Lombardy' ; The madrigal ; Florence ; The Tuscan novellieri ; The ballata -- The fifteenth century. The professional composer ; Politics and music in the Republic of Venice ; The transmission of music ; Biography of a composer ; Retorique and musique at the court of Burgundy ; Account of a festival -- The philosophy of praxis. Lambert ; Jacques de Lieges ; Marchetto da Padova ; Ugolino da Orvieto -- The semiotics of notation. Johannes de Grocheo ; Johannes de Muris ; Marchetto da Padova ; Prosdocimus de Beldemandis -- The codification of form. Walter Odington ; Anonymous (French) ; Anonymous (Italian) ; Johannes Tinctoris -- Changes in usage within a generation. Franco of Cologne ; Jacques de Lieges ; Filipoctus de Caserta ; Johannes Tinctoris -- Interest in musicians. Anonymous IV ; Anonymous poet ; Filippo Villani ; Martin Le Franc -- Composers in their milieu. Salimbene da Parma ; Guillaume de Machuat ; Giovanni Gherardi ; Guillaume Dufay. |
| Abstract |
Uniquely among histories of mediaeval music, this book is specifically devoted to the vast repertory of monophonic music. Too often treated as a preamble to polyphony, this music forms the basis of Europe's musical tradition. (A companion volume by F.A. Gallo, forthcoming in English translation, covers polyphonic music of the Middle Ages.) The author outlines the birth and evolution of Christian chant in the early centuries of the Church and describes a number of partly independent Byzantine and Western chant traditions. Fr Cattin's own background in the Church gives a particular authority to his writing on liturgical music, and he presents the latest original research without being too technical. In addition to offshoots of the main liturgical tradition such as tropes, metrical offices and liturigical drama, Fr Cattin covers the birth of secular music, first in Latin monody, and then in a growing variety of music in vernacular languages - the Italian laude and the lyrics of the Provençal troubadours, the French trouvères and the German Minnesinger. Chapters on early instrumental music and on the philosopher's view of the ars musica complete the book. |
| General note | English version of: Il Medioevo. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| LCCN | 83026316 |
| ISBN | 0521241618 |
| ISBN | 0521284899 (pbk.) |
