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Kenneth Levy

Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians

Kenneth Levy

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English
Princeton University Press
01 March 1998
Early music (up to c 1000 CE); Sacred & religious music
This text, which represents the culmination of the author's research, seeks to change long-held perceptions about certain crucial stages of the evolution and dissemination of the old corpus of plainchant - most notably the assumption that such a large and complex repertory could have become and remained fixed for over a century while still and oral tradition. Levy portrays the promulgation of an authoritative body of plainchant during the reign of Charlemagne by differentiating between actual evidence, hypotheses, and received ideas. How many traditions of oral chant existed before the tenth century? Among the variations noted in written chant, can one point to a single version as being older or more authentic that the others? What precursors might there have been to the notational system used in all the surviving manuscripts, where the notational system seems fully formed and mature?

In answering questions that have long vexed many scholars of Gregorian chant's early history, Levy offers fresh explanations of such topics as the origin of Latin neumes, the shifting relationships between memory and early notations, and the puzzling differences among the first surviving neume-species form the tenth century, which have until now impeded a critical restoration of the Carolingian musical forms.
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Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 197mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   539g
ISBN:   9780691017334
ISBN 10:   0691017336
Pages:   288
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Kenneth Levy is Scheide Professor of Music History Emeritus at Princeton University. He is well known for his work in medieval music, particularly Byzantine and Latin plainchant. He is the author of Music: A Listener's Introduction.

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Presents a rare combination: a penetrating critique of popular theories; an important theoretical advance in its own right; and stimulating case study of a seminal event in international history.... The book will change the way scholars think about realist theory and the Second World War.


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