The Christian west and its singers : the first thousand years / Christopher Page.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Page, Christopher, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church music--To 500.

Church music.

Church music--500-1400.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 692 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]

Contents:

A prospect of the sea : the Roman circuit

The god of the household and his music

Echoes of Christian music at community meals and elsewhere

Psaltes and lector : towards a ministry of singing

Lectors in Rome and elsewhere

The psalmody of urban house-ascetics

Deacons as readers and psalmists in the fourth and fifth centuries

A new political order, and two singers from sixth-century Gaul

Schooling to silence the layman's voice

Ministers of music in the sixth-century kingdoms : deacons and cantors

Schooling singers in the cathedrals : 450-650

Schooling singers in Rome

Steering in distant waters by the Roman lighthouse

Pippin and his singers I : thrones, dominations, powers

Pippin and his singers II : music for a Frankish-Roman imperium

Singers of the ninth century : Metz and the palatine chapel

Singers, sounds and symbols

Composing for singers 900-1100 I : scholars in the service of saints

Composing for singers 900-1100 II : courtliness and other modes

'In our time, of all men, singers are the most foolish' : Guido of Arezzo and the invention of the stave

Bringing singers to book : Rudolf of Sint Truiden and Guido's invention

Singers and the making of Europe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780300112573

0300112572

OCLC:

420939523