The Temple, the Church Fathers and Early Western Chant

Contents: Introduction Jubal vel Pythagoras, quis sit inventor musicae? The A Capella Question: The rejection of the aulos in Classical Greece The exclusion of instruments from the ancient Synagogue The meaning of the patristic polemic against musical instruments Musical instruments in medieval psalm commentaries and psalters The 10th-century organ at Winchester A capella doctrine versus practice: a necessary distinction The Psalmody of Jewish and Christian Antiquity: On the question of psalmody in the ancient synagogue The 4th-century origin of the gradual Review of AimA(c)e Georges Martimort, Les lectures liturgiques et leurs livres Desert monasticism and the psalmodic movement of the 4th century Preface to the study of the Alleluia Toward early Western Chant: Properization: the Roman Mass Lector chant versus schola chant: a question of historical plausibility Antoine Chavasse and the dating of early chant Iconography: The fifteen Temple steps and the gradual psalms Index

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