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The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years

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Description for The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years Hardback. Traces the rise and consolidation of singers and their art in the Christian West. This book is suitable for historians, musicologists, performing musicians and the general reader keen to explore the beginnings of Western musical art. Num Pages: 400 pages, 50 black-&-white illustrations + 12 colour images. BIC Classification: AVGC3; AVGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 182 x 51. Weight in Grams: 2160.

A renowned scholar and musician presents a new and innovative exploration of the beginnings of Western musical art. Beginning in the time of the New Testament, when Christians began to develop an art of ritual singing with an African and Asian background, Christopher Page traces the history of music in Europe through the development of Gregorian chant—a music that has profoundly influenced the way Westerners hear—to the invention of the musical staff, regarded as the fundamental technology of Western music. Page places the history of the singers who performed this music against the social, political and economic life of a Western ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
694
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300112573
SKU
V9780300112573
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Christopher Page
Christopher Page is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature in the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, and founder of the acclaimed ensemble Gothic Voices.

Reviews for The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years
"Shrewd and perceptive. . . . Virtually every sentence bristles with detail and the meticulous care required to negotiate such complex and contested territory."
Jeremy Begbie, Books and Culture
Jeremy Begbie
Books and Culture
"[This] is a magnificent book, brimming with fresh insights and with unexpected pieces of information drawn from little known sources and unpublished manuscripts."
Robert L. ... Read more

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