Decadent Enchantments : The Revival of Gregorian Chant at Solesmes / Katherine Bergeron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergeron, Katherine, author.

Series:

California studies in 19th century music ; Volume 10.

California Studies in 19th-Century Music Series ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gregorian chants--History and criticism.

Gregorian chants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.) : 30 illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley ; Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. She draws out the parallels between this longing for a lost liturgy and the postrevolutionary quest for lost monuments that fueled the French Gothic revival, a quest that produced the modern concept of "restoration." Bergeron follows the technological development of the Gregorian restoration over a seventy-year period as it passed from the private performances of a monastic choir into the public commodities of printed books, photographs, and Gramophone records. She discusses such issues as architectural restoration, the modern history of typography, the uncanny power of the photographic image, and the authority of recorded sound. She also shows the extent to which different media shaped the modern image of the ancient repertory, an image that gave rise to conflicting notions not only of musical performance but of the very idea of music history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Prelude

1 Restoration and Decay

2 Bibliophilia

3 Gregorian Hands

4 Writing, Reading, Singing

Postlude

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520919617

0520919610

9780585176383

0585176388

OCLC:

1149443934