The Musical World of a Medieval Monk: Adémar de Chabannes in Eleventh-century Aquitaine
The Musical World of a Medieval Monk: Adémar de Chabannes in Eleventh-century Aquitaine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | pages: 384 | 2007 | ISBN: 0521856280 | PDF | 14 mb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | pages: 384 | 2007 | ISBN: 0521856280 | PDF | 14 mb
James Grier documents the musical activities of Adémar de Chabannes, eleventh-century monk, historian, homilist and tireless polemicist for the apostolic status of Saint Martial, patron saint of the abbey that bore his name in Limoges. Adémar left behind some 451 folios of music with notation in his autograph hand, a musical resource without equal before the seventeenth century. He introduced, at strategic moments, pieces familiar from the standard liturgy for an apostle and items of his own composition.