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Western Plainchant
Language: en
Pages: 764
Authors: David Hiley
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ni
Western Plainchant in the First Millennium
Language: en
Pages: 488
Authors: Sean Gallagher
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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Taking up questions and issues in early chant studies, this volume of essays addresses some of the topics raised in James McKinnon's The Advent Project: The Lat
An Introduction to Gregorian Chant
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Richard L. Crocker
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Richard L. Crocker offers in this book and its accompanying compact disc an introduction to the history and meaning of the Gregorian chant. He explains how Greg
Tonal Consciousness and the Medieval West
Language: en
Pages: 482
Authors: Fiona McAlpine
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Peter Lang

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Tonal consciousness, in the sense of a clear intuition about which note or chord a piece of music will finish on, is as much a part of our everyday experience o
Gregorian Chant
Language: en
Pages: 455
Authors: David Hiley
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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What is Gregorian chant, and where does it come from? What purpose does it serve, and how did it take on the form and features which make it instantly recogniza