Music in the Medieval West / Margot Fassler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fassler, Margot Elsbeth, author.

Series:

Western music in context

Western music in context : a Norton history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--500-1400--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Instruction and study.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 259 pages, 70 variously numbered pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton and Company, [2014]

Summary:

Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six original volumes, strikingly illustrated, each written in an engaging style by an outstanding musicologist. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense-as sounds notated, performed, and heard-focusing not only on composers and works but also on broader social and intellectual currents. The series carries on Norton's tradition of excellence in musical scholarship. Music in the Medieval West imaginatively reconstructs the repertoire of the Middle Ages by drawing on a wide range of sources. In addition to highlighting the ceremonial and dramatic functions of medieval music in both the sacred and the secular spheres, Fassler pays special attention to the exchange of musical ideas, the development of musical notation and other methods of transmission, and the role of women in musical culture. The volume also includes a medieval music primer, introducing sources commonly drawn upon for study and performance. Also Available, Anthology for Music in the Medieval West, the ideal companion to this text, contains forty-four carefully chosen works representing a wide variety of genres and composers of the period. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Making of the Middle Ages 1

A Case Study: Ave Maris Stella 3

Medieval Books and the Spread of Christianity 10

The Art of Memory 11

For Further Reading 13

Part I Founders and Foundations of Western Music 15

Chapter 2 Medieval Musical Traditions: Before the Written Evidence 19

Egeriain Jerusalem: A Pilgrim's View 20

Jerusalem in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries 24

Psalms and Hymns: Translations, Interpretations, and Forms 25

Boethius and the Greeks: A Scholar's View of Antique Music 28

Reconstructing an Early Medieval Harp 33

For Further Reading 34

Chapter 3 Chant and the Carolingians 36

Frankish Chant: Myths and Memory 37

The Frankish Mass and its Music 40

The Development of Chant Notation 44

Early Chant Books and Databases: Mode and Memory in the Ninth Century 46

Modes and Early Theoretical Understanding 51

For Further Reading 54

Chapter 4 The Office, the Mass Ordinary, and Practices of Troping 56

Music in Monastic and Secular Churches 58

Music for the Office 59

The Mass Ordinary and Its Tropes 66

Commentaries on the Alleluia 71

Tropes from the Workshop of Adémar of Chabannes 74

For Further Reading 78

Part II Conquest and Devotion in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 79

Chapter 5 Teaching and Learning in the Late Romanesque 84

Adémar's Description of a Relic in Action 86

Creating Characters through Music: The Sounds Of the Saints 89

Teaching and Learning in the Eleventh Century 93

Organs and Organum 97

Teaching Music at the Turn of the Twelfth Century 99

For Further Reading 103

Chapter 6 Conquest, Changing Tastes, and Pilgrimage in the Twelfth Century 104

Music and Conquest 106

Normans on the Move in England, Sicily, and Jerusalem 107

Music and Monasticism: Cluny in Context 109

Polyphonic Repertories in Southern France 112

Medieval Iberia in an Age of Reconquest 114

For Further Reading 120

Chapter 7 Poet-Composers in an Age of the Individual 121

Abelard and Heloise: Lovers and Religious Reformers 122

The Many Facets of Courtly Love 126

The First Vernacular Song Repertory 128

The Aesthetics of the Early Gothic 132

Victorine Sequences as an Art of Memory 135

Hildegard of Bingen: Levels of Meaning in Song and Drama 137

For Further Reading 141

Part III Schools and Urban Sounds in the Thirteenth Century 143

Chapter 8 "Then Truly Was the Time of Singing Come" 147

St. Francis and His Followers 149

The Lives of Students in Song 152

Songs and Song Collections from Northern France: The Trouveres 158

Cantigas from Medieval Spain 163

For Further Reading 166

Chapter 9 Music and Earning in the Thirteenth Century 168

Music and the Miraculous 170

Learned Music in Thirteenth-Century Paris 175

The Thirteenth-Century Motet 186

For Further Reading 191

Part IV Musicians and Patrons in the Fourteenth Century 193

Chapter 10 Music and Narrative in Fourteenth-Century France 197

Music and Court Life at the Time of the Last Capetians 198

Politics and the Roman de Fauvel 203

Johannes de Muris, Philippe de Vitry, and the Ars Nova 208

Guillaume de Machaut: Narrative and Memory 211

The Ars Subtilior: Music at the Close of the Fourteenth Century in France 218

For Further Reading 221

Chapter 11 Italy and England in the Fourteenth Century 223

Music of the Trecento 224

Sources of Trecento Music 227

English Song in the Late Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 236

Late-Fourteenth-Century Sacred Music, with an Emphasis on England 239

For Further Reading 244

Chapter 12 On the Edges 246

Frauenlob and German Minstrelsy 247

Religious Women in the Long Fourteenth Century 251

Late Medieval Music in Spain and Iceland 254

The Global Middle Ages 257

For Further Reading 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780393929157

0393929159

OCLC:

807025419