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The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance.(Book Review)

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By Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. (Musical Performance and Reception.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. [xi, 335 p. ISBN 0-521-81870-2. $65.] Music examples, illustration, bibliography, index.

The Modern Invention of Medieval Music is devoted to scholarship over the last two centuries concerning the relative use of voices and instruments in late medieval polyphony (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) and the consequences of that scholarship for modern performance. It is no narrow study but surveys a wide range of musicological, historical, social, and ideological issues, as well as the careers and personalities of many individuals concerned with editing and ...

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