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The Christian west and its singers : the first thousand years
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The Christian west and its singers : the first thousand years

Christopher Page

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A prospect of the sea : the Roman circuit
The god of the household and his music
Echoes of Christian music at community meals and elsewhere
Psaltes and lector : towards a ministry of singing
Lectors in Rome and elsewhere
The psalmody of urban house-ascetics
Deacons as readers and psalmists in the fourth and fifth centuries
A new political order, and two singers from sixth-century Gaul
Schooling to silence the layman's voice
Ministers of music in the sixth-century kingdoms : deacons and cantors
Schooling singers in the cathedrals : 450-650
Schooling singers in Rome
Steering in distant waters by the Roman lighthouse
Pippin and his singers I : thrones, dominations, powers
Pippin and his singers II : music for a Frankish-Roman imperium
Singers of the ninth century : Metz and the palatine chapel
Singers, sounds and symbols
Composing for singers 900-1100 I : scholars in the service of saints
Composing for singers 900-1100 II : courtliness and other modes
'In our time, of all men, singers are the most foolish' : Guido of Arezzo and the invention of the stave
Bringing singers to book : Rudolf of Sint Truiden and Guido's invention
Singers and the making of Europe.

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