Table of Contents

Abbreviations; 1. The origins of Christian worship: liturgy and chant; 2. Christian chant at Byzantium and in the western churches; 3. Gregorian chant; 4. Lirurgico-musical innovations of the ninth and tenth centuries and their development; secular monody in Latin; 5. Monody in vernacular languages; instruments; the ars musica; Reading; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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A unique history of the vast repertory of monophonic music of the Middle Ages.