An Explanation of the Origins and Nature of Notre Dame Modal Polyphony in the Twelfth Century

A Musical Genre Integral to the Development of Gothic Art and Medieval Culture

• Author(s): Edwin Frederick Flindell,
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Pages: 409
• ISBN_10: 0773443126
  ISBN_13: 9780773443129
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / History / Medieval , History / Europe / Medieval , Music / Instruction & Study / Theory ,

Description:... Offering a significant contribution and interdisciplinary approach to medieval musical research, the author not only researches the music history of the time, but incorporates the political, social and cultural conditions that gave rise to the birth of polyphonic thought in Western music.