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Christopher Page, The Christian West and its Singers: The First Thousand Years. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. xxiii+692 pp. £35. ISBN 978 0 300 11257 3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2012

MARGOT FASSLER
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Plainsong & Medieval Music , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , October 2012 , pp. 201 - 207
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