An
urgently needed guide to understanding medieval music to be used as a
text for the university undergraduate, graduate students in music and
interdisciplinary medieval studies, and for the professional
musicologist and medievalist. This book will also be appreciated by
everyone interested in early music.
Nancy van Deusen's The Cultural Context of Medieval Music
addresses the mental landscape surrounding music that, especially, was
sung and experienced in the Middle Ages. Largely anonymous in its
composition, and apparently lacking the motivation of fame and commerce,
music within a well thought-out system of education served a purpose
that goes far beyond casual entertainment or personal professional
advancement. Offering experience through performance, music exemplified
the basic principles not only of the material and possible measurements
of the visible world―such as of objects, relationships, and movement―but
also of the invisible materials of sound and time, making it an ideal
medium for working with unseen substances such as concepts,
imaginations, and ideas. St. Augustine in the late fourth century
reinforced the importance of music for the process of learning when he
wrote that nothing could be truly understood without music. This book
shows how this, in fact, is the case―a message of great relevance today.
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