ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. These anthologies represented the whole history of music. The chapter looks at anthologies in different lights and using them for different purposes. One way to understand these different views of anthologies is to investigate how they serve as both repertories and canons. The anthologies are repertories, and employ them as useful tools for teaching techniques and styles. Repertories are, in effect, lists of useful things. A concert repertory, for example, is a list of useful pieces for performance. Works in a repertory are chosen for their functional value or their aesthetic/popular appeal. Anthologies thus create a musical and historical world for the student. In the Norton Anthology, the Notre Dame selection used is Leonin's setting of Alleluia Pascha nostrum. Most anthologies force the student to learn in an abstract mode, with no practical experience to help him or her.
