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Margot E. Fassler - Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris - 9780268028893 - V9780268028893
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Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris

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Description for Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris Paperback. Cambridge [England]; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Num Pages: 536 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 920.

Margot E. Fassler’s richly documented history—winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America—demonstrates how the Augustinians of St. Victor, Paris, used an art of memory to build sonic models of the church. This musical art developed over time, inspired by the religious ideals of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor and their understandings of image and the spiritual journey. Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris demonstrates the centrality of sequences to western medieval Christian liturgical and artistic experience, and to our ... Read more

Originally published in hardover in 1993, this paperback edition includes a new introduction by Fassler, in which she reviews the state of scholarship on late sequences since the original publication of Gothic Song. Her notes to the introduction provide the bibliography necessary for situating the Victorine sequences, and the late sequences in general, in contemporary thought.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268028893
SKU
V9780268028893
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About Margot E. Fassler
Margot E. Fassler is the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts.

Reviews for Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris
"Margot Fassler is an original, imaginative scholar, and the first edition of Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris fulfilled our need for a historical account. A paperback edition will make this picture of twelfth-century European creativity available to students and a wider general audience." —Richard L. Crocker, University of California, Berkeley "What meanings did liturgical chant ... Read more

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