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Preoccupied with questions of origins and early dissemination, Western chant scholars have seldom contributed to the discussion of plainsong's role in musical culture generally. The editor of the second volume of Cambridge's performance practice series, Thomas Forrest Kelly, has collected eight studies united by the relatively little-researched theme of local and regional traditions of monophonic chant performance in the centuries after the proliferation of sacred polyphony. Most of the essays explore, albeit from different points of view, the relationship between plainchant ...

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