Strunk's Source Readings in Music History The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages

by Treitler, Leo; McKinnon, James

• ISBN13: 9780393966954
• ISBN10: 039396695X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

In The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages , we witness the merger of musica , then an abstract academic enterprise, and cantus , or practical music. The volume spans a millennium of writings, ranging from scriptural commentaries by St. Jerome and other fourth-century Church Fathers to an excerpt from Speculum musicae , an extensive fourteenth-century treatise by Jacques of Liège. Along the way we read from the works of St. Augustine, Boethius, Hildegard of Bingen, Guido of Arezzo, Franco of Cologne, and a score of others, all in impeccable English translations prepared or revised by James McKinnon.

Table of Contents

Notes and Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 3
Early Christian Views of Music
St. Basil from Homily on the First Psalm	p. 11
St. John Chrysostom from Exposition of Psalm 41	p. 13
St. Jerome from Commentary on the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians	p. 16
Niceta of Remesiana from On the Benefit of Psalmody	p. 18
St. Augustine from the Confessions	p. 22
Music as a Liberal Art
Boethius from Fundamentals of Music	p. 27
Cassiodorus from Fundamentals of Sacred and Secular Learing	p. 33
Isidore of Seville from the Etymologies	p. 39
Chant and Liturgy in the Early Middle Ages
St. Benedict from the Rule of St. Benedict	p. 49
Pseudo-Germanus Exposition of the Ancient Gallican Liturgy	p. 54
Anonymous (8th Century) Ordo romanus XVII	p. 61
Helisachar Letter to Archbishop Nidibrius of Narbonne	p. 65
John the Deacon from Life of Gregory the Great	p. 68
The Monk of St. Gall from Life of the Emperor Charles the Great	p. 71
Hildegard of Bingen from Epistle 47: To the Prelates of Mainz	p. 73
Music Theory and Pedagogy in the Middle Ages
Anonymous (9th Century) from the Musica enchiriadis	p. 79
Anonymous (10th Century) from the Alia musica	p. 86
Pseudo-Odo of Cluny Dialogue on Music	p. 88
Guido of Arezzo Prologue to His Antiphoner	p. 101
Guido of Arezzo Epistle Concerning an Unknown Chant	p. 104
Anonymous (13th Century) Discantus positio vulgaris	p. 108
Johannes de Garlandia from De musica mensurabili	p. 113
Franco of Cologne Ars cantus mensurabilis	p. 116
Aegidius of Zamora from Ars musica	p. 135
Marchetto of Padua from Pomerium in arte musicae mensuratae	p. 141
Jehan des Murs from Notitia artis musicae	p. 151
Jacques of Liege from Speculum musicae	p. 159
Index	p. 169
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