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Music, Scholasticism and Reform: Salian Germany 1024-1125

Hardback

Main Details

Title Music, Scholasticism and Reform: Salian Germany 1024-1125
Authors and Contributors      By (author) T. J. H. McCarthy
SeriesManchester Medieval Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreMusic
ISBN/Barcode 9780719078897
ClassificationsDewey:780.7043
Audience
Undergraduate
Illustrations Illustrations, black & white

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 1 April 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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. -- .

Author Biography

T. J. H. McCarthy is an Andrew W. Mellon research fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto