| Series |
Cambridge studies in medeival and Renaissance music
Cambridge studies in medeival and Renaissance music. UNAUTHORIZED
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| Contents |
How did the organ come to be accepted by the Church? Some earlier answers -- Organs, music and architecture. Some thoughts on melody and harmony ; Organs and polyphony ; Organs, politics and chant ; When might organs have been heard? ; When were bells heard? ; Architectural plans and the placement of organs ; Organs in the westwork and elsewhere ; Organs and documentation. Organs in the Carolingian and Byzantine courts ; The organs of the Utrecht Psalter ; Other early illustrations ; Winchester and other Anglo-Saxon organs ; Other references to 'actual organs' before c. 1300 -- Organs and written technology. Vitruvius, Hero, Muristos and the organ of Aquincum ; The technologies of Theophilus ; Details of 'real organs' in other treatises ; Details of 'real organs' in miscellaneous sources ; Wood and metal technologies in early organ-building ; Further conjectural developments in late medieval organ-building ; How did the organ come to be accepted by the Church? Some newer hypotheses. |
| Abstract |
How did the organ become a church instrument? How did it develop from an outdoor, Mediterranean noisemaker to an instrument which has become the embodiment of western music and responsible for many of that music's characteristics? In this fascinating, investigation, the author speculates on these questions and suggests some likely answers. He considers where the organ was placed and why; what the instrument was like in 800, 1000, 1200 and 1400; what music was played, and how. He re-examines known references before 1300, covering such areas as the history of technology; music-theory art history; architecture, church and political history. Central to the story he uncovers is the liveliness of European monasticism around 1000 and the ability and imagination of the Benedictine reformers. The author's approach is new in both tactics and strategy, giving an interdisciplinary idea of musical development relevant to those both in and out of music. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-387) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 92019196 |
| ISBN | 0521418437 (hardback) |
