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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Part I Chant 700-1150; 1 Before the Beginning: Gregorian Chant; The Franks and Gregorian chant; Roman liturgy; Recitation formulas; Office psalmody; Propers of the mass; Chant theory; 2 New Frankish Forms 700-1000; Laudes and melismas; Tropes; Acclamations of the mass; Texted melismas; Prose and sequence; Kyrie eleison; Hymn; 3 Versus and Related Forms 1000-1150; Rhyming Chant; Rhyme and scansion; Versus; Effects on other forms; Troubadours; Trouvères; Theory and Polyphony; Chant theory; Early polyphony; Polyphonic versus.;Style -- the distinctive manner of presentation, construction, and execution in any art -- is a topic of primary importance in music history. This highly regarded text by noted musicologist Richard Crocker (University of California, Berkeley) takes a much-needed fresh look at the subject and attempts to reshape some basic ideas in the light of modern research. Seeking the reasons for stylistic change within the history of style itself (rather than in the history of men or of ideas), this enlightening account shows how music, growing out of its own past, has shaped its own development. Professo

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Author

Crocker, Richard L.;

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781306862486

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Music, History & Criticism