The Modern Invention of Medieval Music
Scholarship, Ideology, Performance
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- Author: Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, King's College London
- Date Published: July 2007
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521037044
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Scholars and performers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries attempted to revive music that could evoke the Middle Ages. They invented new sounds and new ways of understanding medieval music. This is the fascinating story of the musicians and the societies in which they worked to remake a lost musical world.
Read more- Controversial - questions some of musicology's most cherished beliefs
- Discusses well-known performers and recordings of early music (David Munrow, Gothic Voices, etc.)
- Very readable - enlivened by the author's memories of many of the people and trends he discusses
Awards
- Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Book Award for 2003
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"This book is a good read for anyone who is interested in medieval music or has an interest in how history, particularly music history, is written and developed." Music Educators Journal
See more reviews"Part histoiography and part reception history, this meticulously researched volume reminds readers that no attempt to re-create the music of the past is likely to avoid doing sos through perspectives that are decidedly embedded in the present. Highly recommended." Choice
"The Modern Invention of Medieval Music is n important book. It raises fundamental questions about the relation among music, performance, and historical writing. It belongs on the reading lists of every graduate course in musicological methods, and by extension in the hands of any musicologist interested in how and (more importantly) why we write about music. I cannot praise this book enough for its imagination, daring and élan. It is a book that hits us where we live." Current Musicology, Thomas Irvine
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- Date Published: July 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521037044
- length: 348 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 154 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.528kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus. 5 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The invention of the voices-and-instruments hypothesis
2. The re-invention of the a cappella hypothesis
3. Hearing medieval harmonies
4. Evidence, interpretation, power and persuasion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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