Assignment: Grout and Palisca, Chapter
1
Skim: 1-17*
Read: 17-19 (bottom)
Skim: 19 (bottom)-21
Read: 21-29
Study Questions:
2. What were the principal early Western liturgies?--p. 21-22
3. What two national styles are fused in the body
of chant as we now know it?--p.
22-23
4. What were the various attitudes of the early Church
Fathers towards music in the
church? Why were
they at times so extreme?--p. 25-26
5. Who was Boethius? Where did he get his material?
What were his three divisions
of music?--p. 27-29