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Decadent enchantments : the revival of Gregorian chant at Solesmes
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ISBN: 0520210085 Year: 1998 Volume: 10 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press,

Decadent enchantments
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ISBN: 0520919610 0585176388 9780520919617 9780585176383 0520210085 Year: 1998 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. She draws out the parallels between this longing for a lost liturgy and the postrevolutionary quest for lost monuments that fueled the French Gothic revival, a quest that produced the modern concept of "restoration." Bergeron follows the technological development of the Gregorian restoration over a seventy-year period as it passed from the private performances of a monastic choir into the public commodities of printed books, photographs, and Gramophone records. She discusses such issues as architectural restoration, the modern history of typography, the uncanny power of the photographic image, and the authority of recorded sound. She also shows the extent to which different media shaped the modern image of the ancient repertory, an image that gave rise to conflicting notions not only of musical performance but of the very idea of music history.


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Voice lessons : French mélodie in the belle epoque
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ISBN: 9780195337051 0195337050 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Disciplining music : musicology and its canons
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ISBN: 0226043681 0226043703 9780226043708 Year: 1992 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,


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Reading Opera
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ISBN: 9781400859597 9780691602677 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Siren Songs : Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera
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ISBN: 9781400866717 9780691058139 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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