Leo Treitler

The Early History of Music Writing in the West.

Journal of the American Musicological Society Vol.
35, No. 2 (Summer, 1982), pp. 237279

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.

Reading and Singing: On the Genesis of Occidental

Music-Writing. Early Music History Vol. 4 (1984),
pp. 135208

Treitler studied at the University of Chicago under

Grosvenor Cooper, achieving the BA in 1950 and the MA
in 1957. He received an MFA from Princeton University in 1960 and a Ph.D. in 1967; there he studied under
Oliver Strunk, Arthur Mendel, and Roger Sessions. From
1961 to 1965 he taught at the University of Chicago, and
following this at Brandeis University and SUNY Stony
Brook.

The Unwritten and Written Transmission of

Medieval Chant and the Start-Up of Musical Notation. The Journal of Musicology Vol. 10, No. 2
(Spring, 1992), pp. 131191

Treitlers major work is in Medieval and Renaissance 2.2 On historiography and musical analymusic, particularly in Gregorian chant and the earliest
sis
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

Books

To Worship That Celestial Sound": Motives for

Analysis. The Journal of Musicology Vol. 1, No.
2 (Apr., 1982), pp. 153170

The Aquitanian Repertories of Sacred Monody in

the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (dissertation,
Princeton U., 1967)

3 References

Music and the Historical Imagination. (Cambridge,

MA, 1989) [collection of essays]

Morgan/Sparshott, Leo Treitler. The New Grove

Dictionary of Music and Musicians online.

Source Readings in Music History. New York, 1998

(orig. ed. O. Strunk, pub. 1950)
With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval
Song and How it Was Made. (Oxford, 2003)

Major articles

2.1

On the rise of Western plainchant and

notation

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.
123
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