Discarding Images by Christopher Page
For many centuries, the Western imagination has pictured the medieval period as a kind of odyssey: a journey that took mankind to a strange country and ended in the Renaissance, with his homecoming and the restoration of his inheritance. This book explores the kinds of generalizations that are habitually made about "the Middle Ages" and which, whether it is known or not, sustain the false image of a medieval odyssey. In chapters that proceed chronologically from the 13th to the 15th century, Christopher Page examines what is supposed to be the serenity of medieval reflection on such matters as the "numerical" explanation of musical beauty, and he questions the modern tendency to regard ars antiqua motets as music for "an intellectual elite". Turning to the ars nova and beyond, he discusses the relation between 14th-century innovations and contemporary science. A final chapter explores the powerful influence of Johan Huizinga's "The Waning of the Middle Ages" upon musicology. Christopher Page is the author of "Voices and Instruments of the Middle Ages: Instrumental Practice and Songs in France 1100-1300" and "The Owl and the Nightingale: Musical Life and Ideas in France 1100-1300".
Page, Christopher: - Christopher Page is a Fellow of the British Academy, Professor of Medieval Music and Literature at the University of Cambridge, and from October 2014 Gresham Professor of Music at Gresham College, London for three years. He holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology. In 1981 he founded the professional vocal ensemble Gothic Voices, which now has twenty-five CDs in the catalogue, three of which won the coveted Gramophone Early Music Record of the Year award. In 2012, he was a founder member of the Consortium for Guitar Research at Sidney Sussex College, an affiliate of the Royal Musical Association. He has published many books and articles on early music, most recently a major study, The Christian West and its Singers: The First Thousand Years (2010).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198163466 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198163460 |
| Title | Discarding Images |
| Author | Christopher Page |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1993-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 246 |
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