Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony

by Blanche H. Gelfant and Thomas Forrest Kelly

From at least the eighth century and for about a thousand years the repertory of music known as Georgian chant, or plainsong, formed the largest body of written music AND was the most frequently performed and the most assiduously studied in Western civilisation. But plainsong did not follow rigid conventions. It seems increasingly clear that, whatever may have been intended with respect to uniformity and tradition, the practice of plainsong varied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521106893
• ISBN13: 9780521106894
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"