Early medieval music up to 1300

London : Oxford University Press, 1955. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Library copy. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Library marks remain. Library copy. Physical description: xviii, 434 pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles, music ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-417) and index. Contents: Early Christian music ; Music of the Eastern churches / Egon Wellesz -- Russian chant / Alfred J. Swan -- Latin chant before St. Gregory / Monsignore Higini Angl�s -- Gregorian chant / Higini Angl�s -- Trope, sequence, and conductus / Jacques Handschin -- Liturgical drama / W.L. Smoldon -- Medieval song / J.A. Westrup -- The birth of polyphony ; Music in the twelfth century ; Music in fixed rhythm ; The motet and allied forms / Anselm Hughes. Early Christian music / by Egon Wellesz. Early Christian chant ; Antiphonal singing ; The Syrian church ; The forms of Syriac poetry ; Syrian ecphonetic notation -- Music of the Eastern churches / by Egon Wellesz. The development of the Orthodox Church ; The poetical forms of Byzantine hymnography. Troparion ; Kontakion ; Kanon -- Minor hymnography ; The acclamations ; Byzantine musical notation ; The structure of Byzantine melodies ; Coptic music ; Ethiopian music ; Armenian music -- Russian chant / by Alfred J. Swan. Early history ; Development and decline ; Manner of performance -- Latin chant before St. Gregory / by Monsignore Higini Angl�s. Earliest traces ; Ambrosian chant. Origins ; Sources ; Modern restoration ; Musical forms ; Characteristics -- Gallican chant. Historical importance ; Sources ; Chants of the mass ; Chants of the office ; Suppression of the liturgy -- Mozarabic chant. The Visigothic period ; Sources ; Notation ; Musical forms of the liturgy ; Character of the original music ; Abolition of the liturgy -- Gregorian chant / by Higini Angl�s. Musical value and principal features ; Formation of Roman liturgical chant ; Perfection of Gregorian chant ; Diffusion and decay ; Modern restoration ; Sources and notation ; Melodic types and tonality ; Musical form -- Trope, sequence, and conductus / by Jacques Handschin. Terminology ; Origins ; Prototypes in Ambrosian chant ; Prototypes at Nonantola ; Gallican prototypes ; Roman prototypes ; General historical situation (c. 800) ; Adaptation of texts ; Historical position of the trope and sequence ; Early sources ; An example of the sequence ; Music and text ; Changes of style ; Tropes of the first period ; Tropes of the second period ; The conductus -- Liturgical drama / by W. L. Smoldon. General history ; The Easter sepulchre drama. First stage ; Second stage ; Third stage -- Peregrinus plays ; Passion plays ; Christmas plays ; Sundry religious plays ; The Daniel plays -- Medieval song / by J. A. Westrup. Latin secular songs ; Chansons de Geste ; Troubadours and Trouv�res. Background ; Notation and performance ; Tonality ; Structure ; Songs with refrains ; Lais -- English songs ; Minnesinger. Notation and structure ; Influences ; Melodic formulas -- Spanish melody ; Laudi Spirituali -- The birth of polyphony / by Anselm Hughes. Earliest references ; Processes of reconstruction ; Theories about the origin of harmony ; First written records ; Guido's Micrologus ; Early examples of polyphony ; Cotton and the Ambrosiana Treatise -- Music in the twelfth century / by Anselm Hughes. New conditions ; Sources of the period ; The Calixtine manuscript ; Notation and the staff ; Types of hexachord ; The notation of time ; The relationship between the voices ; Cadences ; The range of the voices ; Three-part writing ; 'Ut tuo propitiatus' ; The eleventh fascicle of the St. Andrews manuscript -- Music in fixed rhythm / by Anselm Hughes. Preliminary remarks on dates and dating ; Sources of the period ; The general picture ; Conductus and organum ; The rhythmic modes ; The conductus ; Dance music ; The relationship of the individual voices ; Early English part-songs ; Organum ; Clausulae -- The motet and allied forms / by Anselm Hughes. General characteristics ; Sources of the period ; The original structure of the motet ; Tenor themes ; 'Manere' ; Notation ; Musica ficta ; Vernacular texts ; Interchange and imitation ; Later Ars Aantiqua ; Mensural notation ; Technical developments ; Harmony ; Isorhythm ; English motets for four voices ; Hocket ; Duple time ; 'Sumer is icumen in.' Subjects: Music 500-1400 History and criticism; Music Medieval; Music 15th century.