Medieval Music and the Art of Memory

by Anna Maria Busse Berger

Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and Society of Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520314271
• ISBN13: 9780520314276
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"