Preface; 1. Gregorian chant in the service of the church; 2. The beginnings of Roman chant; other rites and other sorts of chant; 3. Tradition and innovation in medieval chant: from the ninth to the sixteenth century; 4. Thinking about Gregorian chant in the Middle Ages, and notating it; 5. New chants for new times: from the sixteenth century to the present; Aspects of performance; Glossary.
An indispensable guide to this key topic in music studies, examining what Gregorian chant is, and its form and features.
David Hiley is Professor in the Institute of Musicology at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
'The clarity of prose and organization are to be emulated and
Hiley's welcoming style allows the reader to feel at home with some
of the most challenging concepts in musicology … Maintaining the
highest standards of both scholarship and writing, it is easy to
imagine this book's becoming an indispensable classic for general
readers.' James Vincent Maiello, Notes: Quarterly Journal of the
Music Library Association
'… comprehensive, written in a deliberately engaging and accessible
manner, and invokes the typical twentieth-century priorities, such
as the distinction between 'sacred' and 'secular', 'The Church'
viewed as a more or less monolithic entity, the 'evolution' of
monastic groups, 'forms' and 'styles', and the notion of
'repertory'.' Nancy van Deusen, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance
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