The Temple, the Church Fathers and Early Western Chant
- Author: McKinnon, James
if any journal arrives with an article by [James McKinnon] , I turn to it first, knowing that he will deal with absolute clarity with matters that are often shrouded in hypotheses....An extremely... — More…
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Contents
- 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 Aimee 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.