Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris, Second Edition

by Margot E. Fassler

Book Overview

Margot E. Fassler's richly documented history--winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America--demonstrates how the Augustinians of St. Victor, Paris, used an art of memory to build sonic models of the church. This musical art developed over time, inspired by the religious ideals of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor and their understandings of image...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268028893
• ISBN13: 9780268028893
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 9.9"