Provocative and timely, Disciplining Music confronts a topic that has sparked considerable debate in recent years: how do musicians and music scholars "discipline" music in their efforts to confer order and meaning on it? This collection of essays addresses this issue by formulating questions about music's canons--rules that measure and order, ...
A study of the musical legacy of the monks of Solesmes, France, whose singing style has profoundly influenced the Western classical tradition. In the 1830s, a French monk named Prosper Guéranger proposed that an abandoned Benedictine monastery be restored. The site became a renowned cultural center, producing books, photographs, and choral ...
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