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| Contents |
Medieval improvisation -- Written music and oral music : improvisation in medieval performance -- The Vatican organum treatise and the organum of Notre Dame of Paris : perspectives on the development of a literate music culture in Europe -- "Peripheral" and "central" -- On the structure of the Alleluia melisma : a Western tendency in Western chant(?) -- Homer and Gregory : the transmission of epic poetry and plainchant -- "Centonate" chant : Übles Flickwerk or e pluribus unus? -- Lingering questions about "oral literature" -- The politics of reception : tailoring the present as fulfilment of a desired past -- Oral, written, and literate process in the music of the Middle Ages -- Observations on the transmission of some Aquitanian tropes -- History and ontology of the musical work -- The early history of music writing in the West -- Reading and singing : on the genesis of Occidental music writing -- Speaking of Jesus -- Medieval music and language -- The marriage of poetry and music in medieval song. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-496) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007562903 |
| ISBN | 9780199214761 (pbk.) |
