Full Description
Margot Fassler's Music in the Medieval West imaginatively reconstructs the repertoire of the Middle Ages by drawing on a wide range of sources. In addition to highlighting the ceremonial and dramatic functions of medieval music (both sacred and secular), she pays special attention to the exchange of musical ideas, the development of musical notation and other methods of transmission, and the role of women in musical culture.
Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense—as sounds notated, performed, and heard—focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents.
Contents
**Contents subject to change 1. The Making of the Middle Ages
2. The Foundations of the Western Middle Ages: Music and Music Theory in the Late Roman Empire
3. Chant and the Carolingians
4. The Office, the Mass Ordinary, and Varied Practices of Troping
5. Sound and Spaces, Theory and Practice in the Eleventh Century
6. Conquest, Changing Tastes, and Pilgrimage in the Twelfth Century
7. Poet-Composers in an Age of the Individual
8. The Thirteenth Century: "Then Truly Was the Time of Singing Come"
9. Music and Learning in the Thirteenth Century
10. Music and Narrative in Fourteenth-Century France
11. The Fourteenth Century in Italy and England
12. Epilogue: On the Edges
