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Christopher Page, Fellow of the British Academy, was educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School (founded 1527) in London and Balliol College, Oxford.
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For many centuries, the Western imagination has pictured the medieval period as a kind of odyssey: a journey that took humankind to a strange country and ended in the Renaissance with its homecoming and the restoration of its inheritance. In this stimulating and provocative book, Christopher Page, Director of the acclaimed early music vocal group Gothic Voices, explores the kinds of generalizations that we habitually make about "the Middle Ages" and which, whether we know it or not, sustain the false image of a medieval odyssey. In chapters that proceed chronologically from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, he examines what we suppose to be the serenity of medieval reflection on such matters as the "numerical" explanation of musical beauty, and he questions the modern tendency to regard Ars antiqua motets as music for "an intellectual elite." Turning to the Ars Nova and beyond, he discusses the relation between fourteenth century innovations and contemporary science. A final chapter explores the powerful influence of Johan Huizinga's classic The Waning of the Middle Ages upon musicology. Page's lively prose is full of provocative ideas, and is enriched by an uncommonly deep experience of medieval music.
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Few now remember that the guitar was popular in England during the age of Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare, and yet it was played everywhere from the royal court to the common tavern. This groundbreaking book, the first entirely devoted to the renaissance guitar in England, deploys new literary and archival material, together with depictions in contemporary art, to explore the social and musical world of the four-course guitar among courtiers, government servants and gentlemen. Christopher Page reconstructs the trade in imported guitars coming to the wharves of London, and pieces together the printed tutor for the instrument (probably of 1569) which ranks as the only method book for the guitar to survive from the sixteenth century. Two chapters discuss the remains of music for the instrument in tablature, both the instrumental repertoire and the traditions of accompanied song, which must often be assembled from scattered fragments of information.
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A renowned scholar and musician presents a new and innovative exploration of the beginnings of Western musical art. Beginning in the time of the New Testament, when Christians began to develop an art of ritual singing with an African and Asian background, Christopher Page traces the history of music in Europe through the development of Gregorian chant—a music that has profoundly influenced the way Westerners hear—to the invention of the musical staff, regarded as the fundamental technology of Western music. Page places the history of the singers who performed this music against the social, political and economic life of a Western Europe slowly being remade after the collapse of Roman power. His book will be of interest to historians, musicologists, performing musicians, and general readers who are keen to explore the beginnings of Western musical art.
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Christopher Page, Fellow of the British Academy, was educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School (founded 1527) in London and Balliol College, Oxford.
Foreign the Scottish botanist, see Christopher Nigel Page. He has written numerous books regarding medieval music He is currently a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature, and Professor of Music at Gresham College.
He was formerly a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford (1977–1980) and Senior Research Fellow in Music at Sidney Sussex.
The ensemble has performed in many countries, including, France, Germany, Portugal and Finland. London dates included twice-yearly sell-out concerts at London"s Wigmore Hall.
The ensemble gave its first Promenade Concert in 1989. The group"s work has been chronicled most recently in Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, The Modern Invention of Medieval Music (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2007) and Richard Taruskin, Text and Acting (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2006).
Between 1989 and 1997, he was presenter of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3"s Early Music programme, Spirit of the Age, and a presenter of the Radio 4 arts magazine Kaleidoscope.
He has been chairman of the National Early Music Association and of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society (founded 1889). He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Early Music (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK) and Plainsong and Medieval Music (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom). Christopher Page was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2008.
He is currently working on a major reference work, Music in Medieval Literature: Readings from the Fall of Rome to Gothic Europe, for Cambridge University Press, and a monograph on the Tudor Guitar.
In 2014 he was appointed Professor of Music at Gresham College. In this role he will deliver series of free public lectures within London.
His first year of lectures will be on Men, Women and Guitars in Romantic England. He plays historical guitars, principally the four-course renaissance guitar and the early Romantic guitar.
He is the founder and director of Gothic Voices, an early music vocal ensemble, which has recorded 25 discs for Hyperion Records, many winning awards. He is a founder member of the Consortium for Guitar Research at Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, which is an affiliate of the Royal Musical Association.
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