Music of the Middle Ages

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I. THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP;
LITURGY AND CHANT
1 The evidence of the early Christian sources i
2 The Jewish roots of Christian worship 4
3 The early forms of Christian chant 8
4 Liturgy and chant after the Edict of Milan 13
5 Hymnody 17
II. CHRISTIAN CHANT AT BYZANTIUM AND
IN THE WESTERN CHURCHES
6 Greco-Byzantine chant 21
7 Old Roman (paleo-Roman) chant 26
8 Ambrosian (Milanese) chant 31
9 The ancient chant of Aquileia and Benevento 38
I o Ancient Hispanic (Mozarabic) and Gallican chant 42
III. GREGORIAN CHANT
I1 Gregory the Great 48
12 The liturgy of the Western churches in the
Carolingian period: Franco-Roman chant 53
13 From oral tradition to neumatic notation 56
14 Notation: problems of derivation and
regional variation 60
15 Neumes and their classification 63
16 Neumes and words 69
17 Neumes and Gregorian time 72
18 Neumes and Gregorian rhythm 76
19 Modal theory and structure 79
20 Classical forms of the Gregorian repertory 87
21 Decline and revival 94
IV. LITURGICO-MUSICAL INNOVATIONS OF THE NINTH
AND TENTH CENTURIES AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT;
SECULAR MONODY IN LATIN
22 Sequences 101
23 Tropes 110
24 Metrical and dramatic offices 116
25 Liturgical drama 120
26 Non-liturgical Latin monody 127
V. MONODY IN VERNACULAR LANGUAGES; INSTRUMENTS;
THE ARS MUSICA
27 Troubadour and trouvere lyric 132
28 Monody in the German-speaking countries, the Iberian
peninsula and England 141
29 Italian poetry: laude 145
30 Musical instruments 152
31 The ars musica in the Middle Ages 157
READINGS
1 The jubilus in St Augustine 162
2 From the De institutione musica of Severinus Boethius 163
3 From the Institutiones of Cassiodorus 166
4 From the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville 169
5 From the Epistola de ignoto cantu of Guido d\'Arezzo 175
6 An example of dramatised liturgy 179
7 Evidence for musical customs in Italy 182
8 From the Ars musica of Gill da Zamora 185
Glossary 190
Notes 201
Bibliography 213
Index 239