| The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance Contributor(s): Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel (Author), Butt, John (Editor), Dreyfus, Laurence (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521818702 ISBN-13: 9780521818704 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $132.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2002 Annotation: 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? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 780.9 |
| LCCN: 2003268355 |
| Series: Musical Performance and Reception (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 9" (1.50 lbs) 348 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Scholars and performers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries attempted to revive music that could evoke the Middle Ages. They invented new sounds and new ways of understanding medieval music. This is the fascinating story of the musicians and the societies in which they worked to remake a lost musical world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel: - Daniel Leech-Wilkinson is a writer and broadcaster on medieval music. He is Reader in Historical Musicology at King's College, London and his previous books include studies and editions of the fourteenth-century poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut. |