Medieval music and the art of memory /

Main Author: Berger, Anna Maria Busse
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : the first great dead white male composer
  • The construction of the memorial archive
  • Tonaries : a tool for memorizing chant
  • Basic theory treatises
  • The memorization of organum, discant, and counterpoint treatises
  • Compositional process in polyphonic music
  • Compositional process and transmission of Notre Dame polyphony
  • Visualization and the composition of polyphonic music.