Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Leo Treitler. "`Centonate' Chant: Übles Flickwerk or E pluribus unus?" Journal of the American Musicological Society, 28:1-23.

Discusses the centonization theory of plainchant production and transmission, which understands each chant as the issue of a single and separate act of composition, dismissing it in favor of a generative model involving formulaic reconstruction (as opposed to reproduction after an original invention).
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