E-raamat: Temple, the Church Fathers and Early Western Chant

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 Aimée
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.

James McKinnon formerly University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA