Medieval music as medieval exegesis.(Review)

Medieval music as medieval exegesis. By William T. Flynn. (Studies in Liturgical Musicology, 8.) Pp. xxii + 271 incl. 7 tables. Lanham, MD--London: Scarecrow Press, 1999. [pound]52.25. 0 8108 3656 4

In recent years heightened concern for the meaning and social function of music has caused many musicologists to adopt interdisciplinary strategies that seek to locate musical developments within their cultural context, thereby often producing studies of interest to a broad range of scholars. The present work by William T. Flynn is just such a study, in which its author draws on a variety of disciplines in order to show how eleventh-century liturgy -- broadly conceived as …