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Performing Medieval Music
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020
1 On the restoration of plainchant at Solesmes, see principally Pierre Combe, Histoire de la restauration du chant grégorien d'après des documents inédits: Solesmes et l'édition vaticane (Solesmes, 1969). A short introduction is also provided in David Hiley, Western Plainchant: A Handbook (Oxford, 1993), 624–7. A reading of the revival in the light of Romantic and post-Romantic historicism is given in Katherine Bergeron, Decadent Enchantments: The Revival of Gregorian Chant at Solesmes (Berkeley, 1998).Google Scholar
2 The author of both books was Dom Pothier, the leading figure in chant studies at Solesmes after Dom Guéranger's death in 1875.Google Scholar
3 Gurlitt's colloquium performed early chant through to chansons by Dufay and Binchois, beginning with three concerts in Karslruhe in 1922. On the spread of collegia musica, see Emil Platen and Iain Fenlon, ‘Collegium musicum §6. The 20th-Century Revival’, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edn, London, 2001), vi, 119.Google Scholar
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10 Two recent studies of medieval music that owe an explicit debt to new critical trends are Bruce Holsinger, Music, Body and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer (Stanford, 2001), and Emma Dillon, Medieval Music-Making and the ‘Roman de Fauvel‘ (Cambridge, 2002).Google Scholar
11 Peter Kivy, Authenticities (Ithaca, NY, 1995), 135.Google Scholar
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13 A classic consideration of the emergence of the idea of fixed musical structures during the Middle Ages is Fritz Reckow, “Processus” und “structura”: Über Gattungstradition und Formverständnis im Mittelalter’, Musiktheorie, 1 (1986), 5–29.Google Scholar
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