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Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
Anna Maria Busse Berger
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Description for Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 6 tables, 44 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 610.
This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an enormous amount of music and how music composed in the mind rather than in writing affected musical style, Anna Maria Busse Berger explores the impact of the art of memory on the composition and transmission of medieval music. Her fresh, innovative study shows that although writing allowed composers to work out pieces in the mind, it ... Read more
This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an enormous amount of music and how music composed in the mind rather than in writing affected musical style, Anna Maria Busse Berger explores the impact of the art of memory on the composition and transmission of medieval music. Her fresh, innovative study shows that although writing allowed composers to work out pieces in the mind, it ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520240285
SKU
V9780520240285
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About Anna Maria Busse Berger
Anna Maria Busse Berger is Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis and the author of Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution (1993).
Reviews for Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
"'This complex and stimulating book is notably rich in its interdisciplinarity. Rather than remaining trammeled by a false dichotomy between the oral and the written, Berger takes the lead with Mary Carruthers and others to probe provocative questions of memory, memorization, and mnemonics. The best, and most appropriate, single word to describe Medieval Music and the Art of Memory is ... Read more