Titlebook: Antiquity and the Middle Ages; From Ancient Greece James McKinnon Book 1990 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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The Polyphonic Music of the Medieval Monastery, Cathedral and University, . (‘A Musical Handbook’), is now known to every student of music history as the very source of a new concept in Western music — the simultaneous vertical combination of pitches in performance — which eventually led to the ultimate glory of Western art music: harmony. This treatise, presumed to be o

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,Medieval England, 950–1450,ered devastating decline through successive waves of Danish invasions. Revival of culture and learning began under King Alfred at the end of the ninth century, reaching its culmination in the second half of the tenth century in association with the renewal and dissemination of Benedictine monasticis

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,Court and City in France, 1100–1300,the qualities necessary for excellent behaviour at court, and indeed their romantic vision of an aristocratic poet living in a castle, gracious in demeanour and ‘a(chǎn) great success with women’, has lost none of its allure in the six centuries which have elapsed since the last of the troubadours, Guirau

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,Ars Antiqua — Ars Nova — Ars Subtilior, old and new existed comfortably together. In a clear reflection of the brief equilibrium of peace and prosperity achieved in contemporary society, we see in music a unique balance between the cultivation of the old Notre Dame styles and the developing tradition of the motet. Perhaps the best eviden

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,Public Music as ‘Fine Art’ in Archaic Greece,ic snobbery was perfectly possible in the fifth century, the distinctions underpinning it had their origins in the extraordinary social and artistic ferment of the seventh and sixth. What did these distinctions amount to, and how did they arise?

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Trecento Italy,e from the sketchy remnants of the Siculo-Arabic school, most native vernacular literature before the very end of the duecento reflected in its style and content the central concerns of literate Italians of the period: religion, law and government. The composition of sacred vernacular poetry (encour

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