Author: Edgar Thomas CookPublisher: Nashdom Abbey, Burnham, Bucks. : Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society
ISBN:
Category : Gregorian chants
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Use of Plainsong
Author: Edgar Thomas CookPublisher: Nashdom Abbey, Burnham, Bucks. : Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society
ISBN:
Category : Gregorian chants
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Plainsong
Author: Kent HarufPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375726934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.
Western Plainchant
Author: David HileyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198165729
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
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 ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.
The Rscm Guide to Plainchant
Author: Musical Notation in the West
Author: James GrierPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521898161
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A detailed critical and historical investigation of the development of musical notation as a powerful system of symbolic communication.
Plainsong Accompaniment
Author: John Henry ArnoldPublisher: London : Oxford University Press ; H. Milford
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A Manual of Plainsong for Divine Service
Author: Henry Bremridge D 1901 BriggsPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781013446429
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Polyphony in Medieval Paris
Author: Catherine A. BradleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108311180
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Polyphony associated with the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame marks a historical turning point in medieval music. Yet a lack of analytical or theoretical systems has discouraged close study of twelfth- and thirteenth-century musical objects, despite the fact that such creations represent the beginnings of musical composition as we know it. Is musical analysis possible for such medieval repertoires? Catherine A. Bradley demonstrates that it is, presenting new methodologies to illuminate processes of musical and poetic creation, from monophonic plainchant and vernacular French songs, to polyphonic organa, clausulae, and motets in both Latin and French. This book engages with questions of text-music relationships, liturgy, and the development of notational technologies, exploring concepts of authorship and originality as well as practices of quotation and musical reworking.
The Elements of Plainsong
Author: Walter Howard FrerePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gregorian chants
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Author: James Leonard FISH