Treitler, Leo - With Voice and Pen

Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages. The accompanying CD contains performances of much of the music discussed.

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CONTENTS

1 Medieval Improvisation
2 Written Music and Oral Music
3 The Vatican Organum Treatise and the Organum of Notre Dame of Paris
4 'Peripheral' and 'Central'
5 On the Structure of the Alleluia Melisma: A Western Tendency in Western Chant
6 Homer and Gregory: The Transmission of Epic Poetry and Plainchant
7 'Centonate' Chant: Ubles Flickwerk or e pluribus unus?
8 Lingering Questions about 'Oral Literature'
9 The Politics of Reception: Tailoring the Present as Fulfilment of a Desired Past
10 Oral, Written, and Literate Process in the Music of the Middle Ages
11 Observations on the Transmission of Some Aquitanian Tropes
12 History and the Ontology of the Musical Work
13 The Early History of Music Writing in the West
14 Reading and Singing: On the Genesis of Occidental Music-Writing
15 Speaking of Jesus
16 Medieval Music and Language
17 The Marriage of Poetry and Music in Medieval Song