| Music, Scholasticism and Reform: Salian Germany 1024-1125 Contributor(s): McCarthy, T. J. H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 071907889X ISBN-13: 9780719078897 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2009 Annotation: This is the first book in English devoted to music and its intellectual context in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Drawing on a rich body of theoretical literature and manuscript sources, this book paints a detailed picture of the study of music in eleventh-and early twelfth-century Germany. It focuses on the activity of a group of prominent intellectuals based in the monastic and cathedral schools of the German Kingdom, charting their sources and shared concerns, while subtly examining their reception and modification of each others' ideas. Distilling a considerable amount of German scholarship, it situates music in its proper place among other intellectual developments that took place in eleventh-century Germany. This book is above all a study of motivations and thought processes of a group of medieval thinkers: it and will appeal to specialist and non-specialist ecclesiastical, intellectual and cultural historians, as well as to historians of music and of medieval culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - History | Europe - Medieval - History | Europe - Germany |
| Dewey: 780.943 |
| Series: Manchester Medieval Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This fascinating study looks at music and its intellectual context in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Drawing on a rich body of theoretical literature and manuscript sources, this book paints a detailed picture of the study of music in eleventh-and early twelfth-century Germany. It focuses on the activity of a group of prominent intellectuals based in the monastic and cathedral schools of the German Kingdom, charting their sources and shared concerns, while subtly examining their reception and modification of each others' ideas. Distilling a considerable amount of German scholarship, it situates music in its proper place among other intellectual developments that took place in eleventh-century Germany. This book is above all a study of motivations and thought processes of a group of medieval thinkers: it and will appeal to specialist and non-specialist ecclesiastical, intellectual and cultural historians, as well as to historians of music and of medieval culture. |
