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    Melisma

    Thomas Forrest Kelly

    This is the first book about melismas, or long melodies sung to a single vowel. Using the evidence of medieval creative minds, Thomas Forrest Kelly uncovers the melisma as a…

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    First Nights: Five Musical Premieres

    Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly

    This text takes a look back at the debut performances of five famous musical compositions: Monteverdi’s Orfeo , Handel’s Messiah , Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony , Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and Stravinsky’s…

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    The Sources of Beneventan Chant

    Thomas Forrest Kelly

    Identifies and collects the surviving sources of an important repertory of early medieval music; this is the so-called Beneventan Chant, used in southern Italy in the early middle ages, before…

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    The Practice of Medieval Music: Studies in Chant and Performance

    Thomas Forrest Kelly

    How music functioned in the middle ages, what it meant to its hearers, and how it was performed: these are the subjects of this fascinating volume. The studies collected here…

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    The Sources of Beneventan Chant

    Thomas Forrest Kelly

    Identifies and collects the surviving sources of an important repertory of early medieval music; this is the so-called Beneventan Chant, used in southern Italy in the early middle ages, before…

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    The Beneventan Chant

    Thomas Forrest Kelly

    From the High Middle Ages the dominance of Gregorian chant has obscured the fact that musical practice in early medieval Europe was far richer than has hitherto been recognized. Despite…

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    Chant and its Origins

    Plainchant is the music that underpins essentially all other music of the middle ages, and is the music that is most abundantly preserved. It is a subject that has engaged…

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    Plainsong in the Age of Polyphony

    From at least the eighth century and for about a thousand years the repertory of music known as Georgian chant, or plainsong, formed the largest body of written music. But…

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    First Nights at the Opera

    Thomas Forrest Kelly

    What was it like at the opening night of Mozart’s Don Giovanni or Wagner’s Das Rheingold ? This introduction to the world of opera takes us behind the scenes, during…

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    Music Then and Now With Total Access Registration Card

    Thomas Forrest Kelly

    A you are there guide to masterpieces of Western music.

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    Oral and Written Transmission in Chant

    The writing down of music is one of the triumphant technologies of the West. Without writing, the performance of music involves some combination of memory and improvisation. This volume deals…

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    The Role of the Scroll: An Illustrated Introduction to Scrolls in the Middle Ages

    Thomas Forrest Kelly (Harvard University)

    A beautifully illustrated, full colour history of scrolls and their uses in medieval life.

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    Capturing Music: The Story of Notation

    Thomas Forrest Kelly (Harvard University)

    An entertaining history of how musicians learned to record music for all time, filled with art that sings.

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    The Cambridge History of Medieval Music 2 Volume Hardback Set

    The only authoritative exploration of music in Western Europe during the medieval period for over a quarter-century, this volume is essential for students of the early history of music. Leading…

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    Early Music: A Very Short Introduction

    Professor of Music Thomas Forrest Kelly

    From Gregorian chant to Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti, the music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In…

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    The Exultet in Southern Italy

    Thomas Forrest Kelly (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Harvard University)

    A collection of studies of the Exultet rolls of southern Italy, covering the text, music and ceremonial uses of the objects, with a special focus on their manufacture and purpose…

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    Early Music: A Very Short Introduction

    Thomas Forrest Kelly (Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music, Harvard University)

    In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly frames chapters on the forms, techniques, and repertories of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods with discussion of why old music has…

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    The Century of Bach & Mozart: Perspectives on Historiography, Composition, Theory & Performance

    Bach and Mozart stand as towering representatives of European music of the 18th century, composers whose works reflect intellectual, religious, and aesthetic trends of the period. This collection of essays…

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