The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance
Scholars and performers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries attempted to revive music that could evoke the Middle Ages. They invented new sounds and new ways of understanding medieval music. This is the fascinating story of the musicians and the societies in which they worked to remake a lost musical world.
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The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance
Scholars and performers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries attempted to revive music that could evoke the Middle Ages. They invented new sounds and new ways of understanding medieval music. This is the fascinating story of the musicians and the societies in which they worked to remake a lost musical world.
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The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance

The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance

by Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance

The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance

by Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

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Overview

Scholars and performers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries attempted to revive music that could evoke the Middle Ages. They invented new sounds and new ways of understanding medieval music. This is the fascinating story of the musicians and the societies in which they worked to remake a lost musical world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521818704
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/17/2002
Series: Musical Performance and Reception
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 348
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson is a writer and broadcaster on medieval music. He is Reader in Historical Musicology at King's College, London and his previous books include studies and editions of the fourteenth-century poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The invention of the voices-and-instruments hypothesis; 2. The re-invention of the a cappella hypothesis; 3. Hearing medieval harmonies; 4. Evidence, interpretation, power and persuasion; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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