Editorial: Oxford University Press
Número de páginas: 240 págs. 15.6 x 23.5 cm
Fecha de edición: 14-03-2024
EAN: 9780197685914
ISBN: 978-0-19-768591-4
Precio (sin IVA): 78,90 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 82,06 €
For centuries of European history, singing for a person at the moment of death was considered to be the ideal accompaniment to a life's ending. In this book, author Elaine Stratton Hild examines and recovers the chants sung for the dying during the Middle Ages, beginning in the late eighth century. Along with the first editions of these melodies, she offers considerations of the functions that music played within the deathbed rituals, arguing that the chants served as vehicles with which communities offered comfort to a dying person.