[PDF] Music And Ritual In The Collegiate Church Of Saint Mary In Aachen 1300 1600 eBook

Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521760034

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The study of music from the early Middle Ages to end of the seventeenth century.

Author : Susan Boynton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843834138

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"Young singers through the centuries have occupied a central position in a variety of religious institutional settings: urban cathedrals, collegiate churches, monasteries, guilds, and confraternities." "The training of singers for performance in religious services shaped the very structures of ecclesiastical institutions, which developed to meet the need for educating their youngest members. The development of musical repertories and styles also directly reflected the ubiquitous participation of children's voices in both chant and polyphony. There was even, frequently, a future for choristers after their voices broke."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Miri Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1316175693

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During the early middle ages, Europe developed complex and varied Christian cultures, and from about 1100 secular rulers, competing factions and inspired individuals continued to engender a diverse and ever-changing mix within Christian society. This volume explores the wide range of institutions, practices and experiences associated with the life of European Christians in the later middle ages. The clergy of this period initiated new approaches to the role of priests, bishops and popes, and developed an ambitious project to instruct the laity. For lay people, the practices of parish religion were central, but many sought additional ways to enrich their lives as Christians. Impulses towards reform and renewal periodically swept across Europe, led by charismatic preachers and supported by secular rulers. This book provides accessible accounts of these complex historical processes and entices the reader towards further enquiry.

Author : Charles B. McClendon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300106882

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This book is the first devoted to the important innovations in architecture that took place in western Europe between the death of emperor Justinian in A.D. 565 and the tenth century. During this period of transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, the Early Christian basilica was transformed in both form and function.Charles B. McClendon draws on rich documentary evidence and archaeological data to show that the buildings of these three centuries, studied in isolation but rarely together, set substantial precedents for the future of medieval architecture. He looks at buildings of the so-called Dark Ages—monuments that reflected a new assimilation of seemingly antithetical “barbarian” and “classical” attitudes toward architecture and its decoration—and at the grand and innovative architecture of the Carolingian Empire. The great Romanesque and Gothic churches of subsequent centuries owe far more to the architectural achievements of the Early Middle Ages than has generally been recognized, the author argues.