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Decadent Enchantments: The Revival of Gregorian Chant at Solesmes
Katherine Bergeron
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Hardback. Traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. Series: California Studies in 19th Century Music. Num Pages: 196 pages, 37 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC; AVGD; HBJD; HBLL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. She draws out the parallels between this longing for a lost liturgy and the post-revolutionary quest for lost monuments that fueled the French Gothic revival, a quest that produced the modern concept of 'restoration'. ... Read more
The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. She draws out the parallels between this longing for a lost liturgy and the post-revolutionary quest for lost monuments that fueled the French Gothic revival, a quest that produced the modern concept of 'restoration'. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Series
California Studies in 19th Century Music
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520210080
SKU
V9780520210080
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About Katherine Bergeron
Katherine Bergeron is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley and coeditor of Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons (1992).
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