| Contents |
Jubal vel Pythagoras: quis sit inventor musicae? (The Musical Quarterly 64. New York, 1978) -- The rejection of the Aulos in classical Greece (In Music and Civilization: Essays in Honor of Paul Henry Lang, ed. Rika Maria Maniates and Edmond Strainchamps. New York, 1984) -- The exclusion of musical instruments from the ancient synagogue (Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 106. London, 1979-80) -- The meaning of the patristic polemic against musical instruments (Curren Musicology 1. New York, 1965) -- Musical instruments in medieval psalm commentaries and psalters (Journal of the American Musicology Society 21. Philadelphia, 1968) -- The tenth century organ at Winchester (The Organ Yearbook 5. Buren, Netherlands, 1974) -- A cappella doctrine versus practice: a necessary distinction (La Musique et le rite sacre et profane, Acts of the 13th Congress of the IMS Strasbourg 1982 1. Strasbourg, 1986) -- On the question of psalmody in the ancient synagogue (Early Music History 6. Cambridge, 1986) -- The fourth century origin of the gradual (Early Music History 7. Cambridge, 1987) -- Review of Aimée Georges Martimort, Les lectures liturgique et leurs livres (Turnhout: Brepols, 1992) (Plainsong and Medieval Music 5. Cambridge, 1996) -- Desert monasticism and later fourth-century psalmodic movement (Music and Letters 75. Oxford, 1994) -- Preface to the study of the alleluia (Early Music History 15. Cambridge, 1996) -- Properization: the Roman mass (Cantus Planus, Papers Read at the Fifth Meeting, Eger Hungary, September 1993. Budapest, 1994) -- Lector chant versus schola chant: a question of historical plausibility (Laborare fratres ln unum: Festschrift Laszlo Dobszay zum 60. Geburtstag. Hildesheim, 1995) -- Antoine Chavasse and the dating of early chant (Plainsong and Early Medieval Music 2. Cambridge, 1993 -- The fifteen temple steps and the gradual psalms (Imago Musicae: International Yearbook of Musical Iconography 1. Kassel, 1984). |
| Abstract |
This book is a collection of articles examining liturgical music from classical Greece and ancient Israel to late 15th-century Flanders and Spain. The focus is on two main topics: the negative role of instruments in ancient cult music; and the development of ecclesiastical song in early Christianity. Presented in this book are 16 articles written by the author over a period of 30 years. They span two millenia in their coverage, ranging from classical Greece and ancient Israel to the late 15th-century Flanders and Spain. Liturgical music in some form or another is the theme that binds them together, and two topics in particular are focused on: the negative role that instruments play in ancient cult music; and the development of ecclesiastical song in early Christianity. For the negative role of instruments, a series of articles treats classical Greek ethical notions of instruments, the status of instruments in temple and synagogue and the absence of instruments from early Christian and medieval Church music. The second focus--that of the development of ecclesiastical song--is dealt with in several studies that trace the psalmody and hymnody of the Christian tradition from its roots in Judaism to the origins of Gregorian chant in 7th-century Rome. The articles rely strongly on the writings of the Christian Church Fathers, such as Augustine, Basil and John Crystostom. |
