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Summa Musice

Summa Musice A Thirteenth-Century Manual for Singers - Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs

Hardback (09 May 1991) | English,Latin

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Publisher's Synopsis

How did medieval musicians learn to perform? How did they compose? What was their sense of the history and purpose of music? The Summa musice, a treatise on practical music from c.1200, sheds light on all these questions. It is a manual for young singers who are learning Gregorian chant for the first time, and provides a compact but comprehensive introduction to notation, performance and composition, written in a mixture of Latin prose and verse. More than that, however, it is also an introduction to medieval culture: what educated people believed to be worth knowing about music, how they reasoned when they discussed musical questions, the nature of musical thought and how it was expressed. Christopher Page's 1991 book provides an edition of the Latin text taken from the only surviving original copy, together with an English translation. Both texts are copiously annotated and introduced by an authoritative and illuminating editorial commentary.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521404204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 782.3222
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English,Latin
Number of pages: 294
Weight: 570g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 21mm