Medieval Music and the Art of Memory

Anna Maria Busse Berger (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

428 Seiten

2023
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
979-8-88719-273-4 (ISBN)

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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 did not make memorization redundant but allowed for new ways to commit material to memory.

Anna Maria Busse Berger is Distinguished Professor of Music, emerita at the University of California, Davis. The book has won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Wallace Berry Award from the Society of Music Theory. She was made an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society in 2019.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2023
Übersetzer	Marina Akimova
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-13	979-8-88719-273-4 / 9798887192734
Zustand	Neuware