With Voice and Pen

• 1. Medieval Improvisation ; 2. Written Music and Oral Music ; 3. The Vatican Organum Treatise and the Organum of Notre Dame of Paris ; 4. 'Peripheral' and 'Central' ; 5. On the Structure of the Alleluia Melisma: A Western Tendency in Western Chant ; 6. Homer and Gregory: The Transmission of Epic Poetry and Plainchant ; 7. 'Centonate' Chant: Ubles Flickwerk or e pluribus unus? ; 8. Lingering Questions about 'Oral Literature' ; 9. The Politics of Reception: Tailoring the Present as Fulfilment of a Desired Past ; 10. Oral, Written, and Literate Process in the Music of the Middle Ages ; 11. Observations on the Transmission of Some Aquitanian Tropes ; 12. History and the Ontology of the Musical Work ; 13. The Early History of Music Writing in the West ; 14. Reading and Singing: On the Genesis of Occidental Music-Writing ; 15. Speaking of Jesus ; 16. Medieval Music and Language ; 17. The Marriage of Poetry and Music in Medieval Song

Leo Treitler is simply one of the most interesting and influential American musicologists of his generation, and this astonishing collection of his essays is teeming with insights into some of the central problems of our contemporary musical world and its culture.