With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval Song and How It Was Made [With CD]

by Leo Treitler

Book Overview

Fully revised and updated, Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages. Each of these seminally influential essays has been revised to take account of recent
developments, and is prefaced with a new introduction to highlight the historical issues. The accompanying CD contains performances of much of the music discussed.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019921476X
• ISBN13: 9780199214761
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.1"