Music, Scholasticism and Reform

This fascinating study looks at music and its intellectual context in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Drawing on a rich body of theoretical literature and manuscript sources, this book paints a detailed picture of the study of music in eleventh-and early twelfth-century Germany. It focuses on the activity of a group of prominent intellectuals based in the monastic and cathedral schools of the German Kingdom, charting their sources and shared concerns, while subtly examining their reception and modification of each others' ideas. Distilling a considerable amount of German scholarship, it situates music in its proper place among other intellectual developments that took place in eleventh-century Germany. This book is above all a study of motivations and thought processes of a group of medieval thinkers: it and will appeal to specialist and non-specialist ecclesiastical, intellectual and cultural historians, as well as to historians of music and of medieval culture.

ISBN 071907889X   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780719078897 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 476 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Hardback   Series title Manchester Medieval Studies Publication date 01 Apr 2009   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress ML275   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 780.7043   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate

		List of maps and figures
		List of plates
		The ancient Greek systema teleion and the south-German gamut
		Introduction		1
1		The south-German circle: an historical introduction		11
2		Ancient doctors and modern masters: the south-German circle at work		55
3		Dialectic and the theory of music		109
4		Plato, his interpreters and the south-German circle		147
5		'Textbook codices': music theory manuscripts of the eleventh and twelfth centuries		175
		Conclusion		217
		Bibliography		229
		Index		255

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