Decadent Enchantments: The Revival of Gregorian Chant at Solesmes Volume 10

by Katherine Bergeron

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520210085
• ISBN13: 9780520210080
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"