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Author:   Edwin Frederick Flindell
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773443129

ISBN 10:   0773443126
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   January 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Commendatory Preface by Elena Kolyada; Preface by Sidney Corbett; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - A Philosophy of Approach; Etymology; Interdisciplinary Aspects; Influences and Motivation; Chapter 2 - The Gothic Spring; The Notre Dame School: Leonin and Perotin; Anonymous IV's Listing of Works of the Notre Dame; Composers; Dating the Notre Dame School; Anonymous IV on Leonin's Method of Composing; Tracing the Origins of Notre Dame Polyphony; The Cultural Scene; The Rhymed Victorine Sequence; Some Twelfth-century Perspectives; The Economic Upturn; Paris; Aristotle and Arabic Science; Mastering the Latin Legacy; Accessus ad auctorem; Abbot Suger; Elocutionary Skills; Chapter 3 - The Nature of the Inquiry: Some Preliminary; Considerations; Was Modal Polyphony a System?; An Unexpected Discovery; Chapter 4 - A Survey of Scholarly Viewpoints Respecting the; Origin of the Parisian Modal Polyphony; General Observations; A Natural Development; Rhetorical Tradition and Dance; Lack of Testimony Concerning Origins; The Greco-Roman Legacy; The Vatican Organum Treatise; And More.

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This book is a work of serious research, well organized and thought out. The author investigates the origins of the twelfth-century Parisian school of counterpoint from a new perspective and suggests his own persuasive idea of its evolution. The amount and diversity of material assembled, both historic and musical, is very impressive...very useful for music historians and music theorists alike. (Elena Kolyada, Professor of Music History, St. Tikhon Orothodox Theological University, Moscow)

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