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1. Medieval Improvisation; 2. Written Music and Oral Music; 3. TheVatican Organum Treatise and the Organum of Notre Dame of Paris; 4.'Peripheral' and 'Central'; 5. On the Structure of the Alleluia Melisma: AWestern Tendency in Western Chant; 6. Homer and Gregory: The Transmission ofEpic Poetry and Plainchant; 7. 'Centonate' Chant: Ubles Flickwerk or epluribus unus?; 8. Lingering Questions about 'Oral Literature'; 9. ThePolitics 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 andthe Ontology of the Musical Work; 13. The Early History of Music Writing inthe West; 14. Reading and Singing: On the Genesis of OccidentalMusic-Writing; 15. Speaking of Jesus; 16. Medieval Music and Language; 17.The Marriage of Poetry and Music in Medieval Song