Leo Treitler (b. Jan. 26, 1931) is an American musicologist born in Dortmund, Germany, and is
Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the
City University of New York.
Treitlers major work is in Medieval and Renaissance 2.2 On historiography and musical analymusic, particularly in Gregorian chant and the earliest
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polyphony. He also published a series of essays exploring historiography in music history, which were collected,
The Present as History. Perspectives of New Music
with other works on music history and theory, in MuVol. 7, No. 2 (Spring, 1969), pp. 158
sic and the Historical Imagination. He revised Oliver
Strunk's Source Readings in Music History in 1998.
History, Criticism, and Beethovens Ninth Symphony. 19th-Century Music Vol. 3, No. 3 (Mar.,
1980), pp. 193210
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Major articles
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Homer and Gregory: The Transmission of Epic Poetry and Plainchant. The Musical Quarterly Vol. 60,
No. 3 (Jul., 1974), pp. 333372
Centonate Chant: "bles Flickwerk or E
pluribus unus?". Journal of the American Musicological Society Vol. 28, No. 1 (Spring, 1975), pp.
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