Source Readings in Music History, volume 2: The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages

In his book, we witness the merger of "musica", then an abstract academic enterprise, and "cantus", or practical music. The volume spans a millenium of writtings, ranging from scriptural commentaries by St. Jerome and other fourth-century Chruch Fathers to an excerpt from "Speculum musicae", an extensive fourteenth-century treatise by Jacques of Liège. Along the way we read from the works of St. Agustine, Boethius, Hildegard of Bingen, Guido of Arezzo, Franco of Cologne, and a score of others, all in impeccable English translations prepared and revised by James McKinnon.