Description: City, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music explores how space, urban life, landscape, and time transformed plainchant and other musical forms. Thirteen essays address a wide range of topics and regions--from Beneventan chant in Italy and Dalmatia, to music theory in medieval France, to later transformations of chant in Iceland and Spain.
Brief description: Michael Scott Cuthbert is Homer A. Burnell Associate Professor of Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.