In Defense of Music: The Case for Music as Argued by a Singer and Scholar of the Late Fifteenth Century book by Don Harran
Language: English
Published by University of Nebraska Pres, 1989
- Hardcover
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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> In Defense of Music offers new ways of ap-proaching questions of central importance to our understanding of music around 1 500. There is no other book even vaguely like this one. Everyone interested in singing late medi-eval and Renaissance music ought to read it, and it should also be of interest to people studying the history of liturgy and the history of language." Howard M. Brown, Univer-sity of Chicago. When the use of music in church services came under attack in certain French schools of the carly Renaissance, one of those to rise to its defense was Jean Le Muncrat, a singer and scholar at the College of Navarre in the Uni-versity of Paris. Le Munerat was drawn into a debate with the humanists, who contended that music interfered with the sacred texts and should be subordinated to them in the perfor-mance of the liturgy. He used every argument he could to refute the humanists' position and assert the superiority of lus own as a musician. Don Harr?n has edited and translated into En-glish the Latin texts of. …
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- Title
- In Defense of Music: The Case for Music as Argued by a Singer and Scholar of the Late Fifteenth Century book by Don Harran
- Author
- Don Harran
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Pres
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0803223471
- ISBN 13
- 9780803223479
- Seller catalogs
- Music History
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Original Language: Latin
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