Oxford History of Western Music: Richard

Taruskin
ContentsChapter: MUSIC FROM THE EARLIEST NOTATIONS TO
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Source:

Introduction xiii

Chapter1 TheCurtainGoesUp

“Gregorian” Chant, the First Literate Repertory, and How It Got That Way

Literacy • The Romans and the Franks • The Carolingian Renaissance • The
chant comes north • The legend of St. Gregory • The origins of Gregorian chant
• Monastic psalmody • The development of the liturgy • The Mass and its
music • Neumes • Persistence of oral tradition • Psalmody in practice: The
Office • Psalmody in practice: The Mass • Evidence of “oral composition” •
Why we will never know how it all began • Beginnings, as far as we know them

Chapter2 NewStylesandForms 37 Frankish Additions to the Original Chant Repertory

Longissimae melodiae • Prosa • Sequences • How they were performed • Hymns

• Tropes • The Mass Ordinary • Kyries • The full Franko-Roman Mass • “Old
Roman” and other chant dialects • What is art?

Chapter3 RetheorizingMusic 69

New Frankish Concepts of Musical Organization and Their Effect on Composition

Musica • Tonaries • A new concept of mode • Mode classification in practice •

Mode as a guide to composition • Versus • Liturgical drama • Marian antiphons
• Theory and the art of teaching

Chapter4 MusicofFeudalismandFin’Amors 105 The Earliest Literate Secular

Repertories: Aquitaine, France, Iberia, Italy, GermanyBinarismsAQUITAINE

Troubadours • Minstrels • High (Latinate) and low (“popular”) style • Rhythm

and Meter • Trobar clus FRANCETrouvères • Social transformation • Adam de
la Halle and the formes fixes • The first opera? GEOGRAPHICAL DIFFUSION

Cantigas • A note on instruments • Laude and related genres • Minnesang •

Popularization, then and since • Meistersinger • Peoples and nations • What is
an anachronism? • Philosophy of History

Chapter5 PolyphonyinPracticeAndTheory 147 Early Polyphonic Performance

Practices and the Twelfth-Century Blossoming of Polyphonic Composition

Another renaissance • “Symphonia” and its modifications • Guido, John, and

discant • Polyphony in aquitanian monastic centers • The Codex Calixtinus

Oxford History of Western Music: Richard

Taruskin
ContentsChapter: MUSIC FROM THE EARLIEST NOTATIONS TO
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Source:

Introduction xiii

Chapter1 TheCurtainGoesUp

“Gregorian” Chant, the First Literate Repertory, and How It Got That Way

Literacy • The Romans and the Franks • The Carolingian Renaissance • The
chant comes north • The legend of St. Gregory • The origins of Gregorian chant
• Monastic psalmody • The development of the liturgy • The Mass and its
music • Neumes • Persistence of oral tradition • Psalmody in practice: The
Office • Psalmody in practice: The Mass • Evidence of “oral composition” •
Why we will never know how it all began • Beginnings, as far as we know them

Chapter2 NewStylesandForms 37 Frankish Additions to the Original Chant Repertory

Longissimae melodiae • Prosa • Sequences • How they were performed • Hymns

• Tropes • The Mass Ordinary • Kyries • The full Franko-Roman Mass • “Old
Roman” and other chant dialects • What is art?

Chapter3 RetheorizingMusic 69

New Frankish Concepts of Musical Organization and Their Effect on Composition

Musica • Tonaries • A new concept of mode • Mode classification in practice •

Mode as a guide to composition • Versus • Liturgical drama • Marian antiphons
• Theory and the art of teaching

Chapter4 MusicofFeudalismandFin’Amors 105 The Earliest Literate Secular

Repertories: Aquitaine, France, Iberia, Italy, GermanyBinarismsAQUITAINE

Troubadours • Minstrels • High (Latinate) and low (“popular”) style • Rhythm

and Meter • Trobar clus FRANCETrouvères • Social transformation • Adam de
la Halle and the formes fixes • The first opera? GEOGRAPHICAL DIFFUSION

Cantigas • A note on instruments • Laude and related genres • Minnesang •

Popularization, then and since • Meistersinger • Peoples and nations • What is
an anachronism? • Philosophy of History

Chapter5 PolyphonyinPracticeAndTheory 147 Early Polyphonic Performance

Practices and the Twelfth-Century Blossoming of Polyphonic Composition

Another renaissance • “Symphonia” and its modifications • Guido, John, and

discant • Polyphony in aquitanian monastic centers • The Codex Calixtinus