Very interesting new book
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The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years
by Christopher Page
(Yale University Press; 692 pages; $45)
A history of Western music from Gregorian chant in late antiquity to the development of staff notation.
http://www.amazon.com/Christian-West-Its-Singers-Thousand/dp/0300112572
[Chris is not a relative, as far as I know.]
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