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Oral and Written Transmission in Chant (Music in Medieval Europe)
Oral and Written Transmission in Chant - Music in Medieval Europe
Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly
The writing down of music is one of the triumphant technologies of the West. Without writing, the performance of music involves some combination of memory and improvisation. Isidore of Seville famously wrote that 'unless sounds are remembered by man, they perish, for they cannot be written down'.This volume deals with the materials of chant from...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780754626268
ISBN-10: 0754626261
Publication Date: 12/1/2008
Pages: 452
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Publisher: Ashgate
Book Type: Hardcover
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