The Modern Invention of Medieval Music
Scholarship, Ideology, Performance
Part of Musical Performance and Reception
- Author: Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, King's College London
- Date Published: June 2007
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521037044
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Medieval music has been made and remade over the past two hundred years. For the nineteenth century it was vocal, without instrumental accompaniment, but with barbarous harmony that no one could have wished to hear. For most of the twentieth century it was instrumentally accompanied, increasingly colourful and increasingly enjoyed. At the height of its popularity it sustained an industry of players and instrument makers, all engaged in recreating an apparently medieval performance practice. During the 1980s it became vocal once more, exchanging colour and contrast for cleanliness and beauty. But what happens to produce such radical changes of perspective? And what can we learn from them about the way we interact with the past? How much is really known about the way medieval music sounded? Or have modern beliefs been formed and sustained less by evidence than the personalities of scholars and performers, their ideologies and their musical tastes?
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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- Date Published: June 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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