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Ars musica, musica sacra.


9783795212216

Ars musica, musica sacra sa·cra  
n.
Plural of sacrum.
.

Ed. by Herausgegeben von David Hiley.

Hans Schneider Publishers

2007

126 pages

$62.00

Paperback

Regensburger Studien zur Musikgeschichte; Bd. 4

ML3000

In this volume, Hiley compiles seven essays on sacred music in the Middle Ages, including two that are in German (in addition to the foreword fore·word  
n.
A preface or an introductory note, as for a book, especially by a person other than the author.


foreword
Noun

an introductory statement to a book

Noun 1.
). Essays were presented at a symposium of the same name in October of 2002 in Regensburg, Germany, which focused on the role of art in church services and liturgy. Essays consider such topics as music in Western education in the early Middle Ages, the sacred and profane PROFANE. That which has not been consecrated. By a profane place is understood one which is neither sacred, nor sanctified, nor religious. Dig. 11, 7, 2, 4. Vide Things.  in Polish music sources and painting in the fifteenth In music, a fifteenth (sometimes abbreviated 15ma) is the interval between one musical note and another with one-quarter or quadruple the frequency. It corresponds to two octaves. It is the fourth harmonic.  century, and the representation of political power in the offices of Henry II.

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