Overview

This collection of studies presents unpublished material from the book Isobel Woods Preece was planning at the time of her death. It contains articles published by her and extracts from her dissertation on the Carvor Choirbook. There are also newly written chapters on medieval chant and polyphony by Warwick Edwards and on the music of the Reformed Church by Gordon Munro. Both scholarly and accessible, this work will be of importance to all with an interest in Scotland's Christian musical heritage. ISOBEL WOODS PREECE (1956-1997) was a major pioneer within Scottish music research. A graduate of the University of Glasgow, she subsequently become a Rotary International Graduate Fellow at Princeton University, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Margaret Bent. She held the posts of lecturer, and later senior lecturer, in the Music Department at the University of Newcastle, where she was greatly respected as a scholar, teacher, administrator, conductor and performer.

Full Product Details

Author:   Isobel Woods Preece ,  Sally Harper ,  Sally Harper ,  Margaret Bent
Publisher:   University of Glasgow Music Department
Imprint:   Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen
Volume:   v. 1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.552kg
ISBN:  

9780852616949

ISBN 10:   0852616945
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   01 July 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I Aspects of music in the Scottish church, Isobel Woods Preece: the Scottish Medieval Church - sources and information; the early centuries; our awin Scottis use - chant usage in Medieval Scotland; music and worship in sixteenth-century Scotland. Part II Robert Carvor and the Carvor Choirbook, Isobel Woods Preece: towards a biography of Robert Carvor; the physical characteristics of the Carvor Choirbook; the contents of the Carvor Choirbook; Cant Organe - a lost technique?; a note on Scottish Anonymous . Part III The wider context: chant in Anglo-French Scotland, Warwick Edwards; polyphony in thirteenth-century Scotland, Warwick Edwards; the Scottish Reformation and its consequences, Gordon J. Munro. Appendices: W3 - some fragments of fourteenth-century Scottish polyphony, Isobel Woods Preece; Registrum Moraviense, Statuta Ecclesie Aberdonensis.

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Publication is handsome. Isobel's infectious energies and expertise in music both practical and academic endeared her to all, and there can be no mistaking the genuine sincerity and commitment informing this volume of tribute and memorial. * EARLY MUSIC * Handsome presentation. If we have indeed been denied the definitive book that Dr Preece would have written so elegantly and authoritatively, in the present text we have been given a very fine and important substitute. * MUSIC & LETTERS *

Publication is handsome . Isobel's infectious energies and expertise in music both practical and academic endeared her to all, and there can be no mistaking the genuine sincerity and commitment informing this volume of tribute and memorial. EARLY MUSIC Handsome presentation . if we have indeed been denied the definitive book . that Dr Preece would have written so elegantly and authoritatively, in the present text we have been given a very fine and important substitute. MUSIC & LETTERS

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