Strunk's Source Readings in Music History: The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages

by Leo Treitler, W. Oliver Strunk, Annabeth Albert

In The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages, we witness the merger of musica, then an abstract academic enterprise, and cantus, or practical music. The volume spans a millennium of writings, ranging from scriptural commentaries by St. Jerome and other fourth-century Church Fathers to an excerpt from Speculum musicae, an extensive fourteenth-century treatise by Jacques of Liege. Along the way we read from the works of St. Augustine, Boethius,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039396695X
• ISBN13: 9780393966954
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"