Medieval music and the art of memory [electronic resource] / Anna Maria Busse Berger.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.Description: xvi, 288 p. : illISBN:- 0520240286 (cloth : alk. paper)
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- ML172 .B43 2005eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-279) and index.
Prologue : the first great dead white male composer -- The construction of the memorial archive -- Tonaries : a tool for memorizing chant -- Basic theory treatises -- The memorization of organum, discant, and counterpoint treatises -- Compositional process in polyphonic music -- Compositional process and transmission of Notre Dame polyphony -- Visualization and the composition of polyphonic music.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.