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The Beneventan Chant

The Beneventan Chant

Kelly, Thomas Forrest

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Music

Music Instruction: GeneralWorld Music

ISBN10: 0521065976
ISBN13: 9780521065979
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jun 19 2008
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.76 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
From the High Middle Ages the dominance of Gregorian chant has obscured the fact that musical practice in early medieval Europe was far richer than has hitherto been recognized. Despite its historical importance, the Gregorian is not the most consistent and probably not the oldest form of Christian chant. The recovery and study of regional musical dialects having a common ancestry in the Christian church and Western musical tradition are reshaping our view of the early history of Christian liturgical music. Thomas Kelly's major study of the Beneventan chant reinstates one of the oldest surviving bodies of Western music: the Latin church music of southern Italy as it existed before the spread of Gregorian chant. Dating from the seventh and eighth centuries it was largely forgotten after the Carolingian desire for political and liturgical uniformity imposed Gregorian chant throughout the realm. But a few later scribes, starting apparently in the tenth century, preserved a part of this regional heritage in writing. This book reassembles and describes the surviving repertory.

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