The Temple, the Church Fathers and Early Western Chant

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.