The Christian West and its singers: the first thousand years
A prospect of the sea : communications and the spread of Christianity -- The god of the household and his music -- Echoes of Christian music at community meals and elsewhere -- Psaltes and lector : towards a ministry of singing -- Lectors in Rome and elsewhere -- The psalmody of urban house-ascetics...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Conn. [u.a.]
Yale Univ. Press
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Reviews: | The Christian west and its singers. The first thousand years. By Christopher Page. Pp. xxiv+692 incl. 3 frontispieces and 96 plates. New Haven–London: Yale University Press, 2010. £30. 978 0 300 11257 3 (2012) (Hiley, David)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church music
/ History 500-1100
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| Further subjects: | B
Church Music
500-1400
B Church Music To 500 B Church Music 500-1400 B Church Music To 500 |
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| Summary: | A prospect of the sea : communications and the spread of Christianity -- The god of the household and his music -- Echoes of Christian music at community meals and elsewhere -- Psaltes and lector : towards a ministry of singing -- Lectors in Rome and elsewhere -- The psalmody of urban house-ascetics -- Deacons as readers and psalmists in the fourth and fifth centuries -- A new political order, and two singers from sixth-century Gaul -- Schooling to silence the layman's voice -- Ministers of music in the sixth-century kingdoms : deacons and cantors -- Schooling singers in the cathedrals : 450-650 -- Schooling singers in Rome -- Steering in distant waters by the roman lighthouse -- Pippin and his singers I -- Pippin and his singers II : music for a Frankish-Roman imperium -- Singers of the ninth century : Metz and the palatine chapel -- Singers, sounds and symbols -- Composing for singers 900-1100 -- 'In our time, of all men, singers are the most foolish' : Guido of Arezzo and the invention of the stave -- Bringing singers to book : Rudolf of St. Truiden and Guido's invention -- Singers and the making of Europe |
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| ISBN: | 0300112572 |