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Author Bergeron, Katherine.

Title Decadent enchantments : the revival of Gregorian chant at Solesmes / Katherine Bergeron
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 196 pages) : illustrations
Series California studies in 19th century music ; 10
California studies in 19th century music ; 10.
Contents 1. Restoration and decay. Restoration. Imagining communities. Precious remains -- 2. Bibliophilia. Reforming the face. The face of Saint Gregory. Voices in print -- 3. Gregorian hands. From print to script. Making facsimiles. Getting real. Tradition, translation, memory. Science, technology, power -- 4. Writing, reading, singing. La methode Benedictine. Dom Pothier's ear. Dom Mocquereau's hands. Hieroglyphs. Phonography -- Postlude: legitimate imprints -- Past perfected -- Atypical editions
Summary Bergeron follows the technological development of the Gregorian restoration over a seventy-year period as it passed from the private performances of a monastic choir into the public commodities of printed books, photographs, and Gramophone records. Along the way she discusses such issues as architectural restoration and the modern history of typography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes.
SUBJECT Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes fast
Kloster Solesmes, Sarthe gnd
Solesmes / Kloster. swd
Subject Gregorian chants -- History and criticism.
RELIGION -- Christian Rituals & Practice -- General.
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical
Gregorian chants
Edition
Erneuerung
Gregorianischer Gesang
Reformbewegung
Rezeption
Gregoriaanse muziek.
Abbaye de Solesmes.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520919617
0520919610
0585176388
9780585176383