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The Christian West and its singers : the first thousand years

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  • "Beginning in the time of the New Testament, when Christians began to develop an art of ritual singing with an African and Asian background, Christopher Page traces the history of music in Europe through the development of Gregorian chant--a music that has profoundly influenced the way Westerners hear--to the invention of the musical staff, regarded as the fundamental technology of Western music. Page places the history of the singers who performed this music against the social, political and economic life of a Western Europe slowly being remade after the collapse of Roman power. --from publisher description."
  • "Aan de hand van bronnen zoals opschriften in steen, amuletten en papyrusrollen worden de zangers in het christelijke westen gedurende de eerste tien eeuwen van onze jaartelling in een historisch/muzikale context geplaatst."
  • ""Aidulfus, Crimleicus, Andreas, Wiborada. The men and women who sang the sacred music of the West, from late antiquity to the central Middle Ages, have never had a history of their own - many of them remain unremembered. This major study by a noted scholar and performer provides such a history for the first time." "Using epitaphs, images from the catacombs, chronicles, lives of saints and a great wealth of other sources, written and pictorial, it traces the rise of the Western Christian ministry of music from its fragmentary beginnings in the house-churches, through to the consolidation of Christianity - in one of various contemporary forms - as the official religion of the Roman Empire. The narrative then passes on to the singers of the new barbarian kingdoms, to the Carolingian achievement - which owed so much to singers - and on to the tumult of the eleventh-century Church which impelled, first as an aid to singers, the defining technology of the Western musical tradition: staff notation." --Résumé de l'éditeur."

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  • "The Christian West and its singers : the first thousand years"
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