TY - BOOK ID - 12084064 TI - The Summa musice : a thirteenth century manual for singers AU - Page, Christopher AU - Muris, Johannes de PY - 1991 SN - 0521404207 052103602X 0511597266 0511879148 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - 091:78 KW - 091 <436 SANKT PAUL> KW - Music theory KW - Singing KW - -Gregorian chants KW - -Chant (Plain, Gregorian, etc.) KW - Chants (Plain, Gregorian, etc.) KW - Franco-Roman chants KW - Gregorian chant KW - Old Roman chants KW - Plainchant KW - Plainchants KW - Plainsong KW - Roman chants KW - Chants KW - Singing and voice culture KW - Vocal culture KW - Music KW - Beatboxing KW - Throat singing KW - Musical theory KW - Theory of music KW - Handschriften i.v.m. muziek KW - Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Oostenrijk--SANKT PAUL KW - Instruction and study KW - Performance KW - Theory KW - Gregorian chants KW - -Handschriften i.v.m. muziek KW - 091 <436 SANKT PAUL> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Oostenrijk--SANKT PAUL KW - 091:78 Handschriften i.v.m. muziek KW - -Music KW - Chant (Plain, Gregorian, etc.) KW - 78.23 KW - Zang KW - Gregoriaans KW - Traktaten KW - Muzieknotatie KW - Middeleeuwen KW - 13e eeuw KW - Uitvoeringspraktijk KW - Methodes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12084064 AB - How did medieval musicians learn to perform? How did they compose? What was their sense of the history and purpose of music? The Summa musice, a treatise on practical music from c.1200, sheds light on all these questions. It is a manual for young singers who are learning Gregorian chant for the first time, and provides a compact but comprehensive introduction to notation, performance and composition, written in a mixture of Latin prose and verse. More than that, however, it is also an introduction to medieval culture: what educated people believed to be worth knowing about music, how they reasoned when they discussed musical questions, the nature of musical thought and how it was expressed. Christopher Page's 1991 book provides an edition of the Latin text taken from the only surviving original copy, together with an English translation. Both texts are copiously annotated and introduced by an authoritative and illuminating editorial commentary. ER -