Christopher Page is one of the most influential and distinguished
scholars and performers of medieval music. His first book, Voices and
Instruments of the Middle Ages (1987), marked the beginning of what
might be called the "Page turn" in the study and performance of medieval
music. His many subsequent publications, radio broadcasting (notably the
series Spirit of the Age) and performances and recordings with his
ensemble Gothic Voices changed the perception of and thinking about
music from before about 1400 and forged new ways of communicating its
essence to scholars as well as its subtle beauty to wider audiences.
The essays presented here in his honour reflect the broad range of
subject-matter, from the earliest polyphony to the conductus and motet
of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the troubadour and trouvre
repertories, song and dance, church music, medieval music theory,
improvisation techniques, historiography of medieval music, musical
iconography, instrumental music, performance practice and performing,
that has characterised Page's major contribution to our knowledge of
music of the Middle Ages.
TESS KNIGHTON is an ICREA Research Professor affiliated to the Instituci
Mil i Fontanals-CSIC in Barcelona and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare
College, Cambridge; DAVID SKINNER is Fellow and Osborn Director of Music
at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and director of the early music
ensemble Alamire.
Contributors: Elizabeth Aubrey, Anna Maria Busse Berger, John Caldwell,
Alice V. Clark, Lisa Colton, Lawrence Earp, Mark Everist, David Fallows,
Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Andrew Kirkman, Elizabeth Eva Leach, Marc Lewon,
Jeremy Montagu, Keith Polk, Reinhard Strohm, Rob C. Wegman, Crawford
Young
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