About this title: 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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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780520210080ISBN:0520210085
Description: New. "Decadent Enchantments is an essay in culture history about chant scholarship as a phenomenon, an engaging, lively, and stimulating case study of Romantic and post-Romantic historicism run rampant, with brilliant apercues and colorful analogies on a... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780520210080ISBN:0520210085
Description: First edition. xv+196 pages with index. Illustrated. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. A perspective on the oldest written tradition of European music, the Gregorian chant, is presented in this book. It traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. The book draws out the parallels between this longing for lost monuments that ... read more
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