This Week's Stories: Take our online survey! 1998-99 Staff Pay Plans Proposed Berdahl Expresses Sympathy, Explains Due Process Issues Faculty Profile: Stefan Riesenfeld: "Best" UC Budget in a Decade Features $34 Million Increase Stowsky is New Associate Dean at Haas School New Campus Bicycle Safety Plan Lunch Poems Begins Third Year Sept. 3 Major League Bucks, Minor League Bang How Climate Change Affects U.S. Agriculture Berkeley Astronomers Find Nearby Stars Where Planets May Be Forming Blockbuster Films Come to Campus Michael Nacht Is New Dean of Goldman School of Public Policy Unconventional Classics Scholar Appointed Dean of Humanities   Regular Features Awards Books News Briefs		Books Decadent Enchantments The Revival of Gregorian Chant at Solesmes by Katherine Bergeron, Associate Professor of Music The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order. She follows the technological development of the Gregorian restoration over a 70-year period as it passed from the private performances of a monastic choir into the public commodities of printed books, photographs, and gramophone records. 196 pages On bookstore shelves in August   The Art of Joan Brown by Karen Tsujimoto and Jacquelynn Bass Jacquelynn Bass is director of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The prolific talents of painter Joan Brown (1938-1990) inform every page of this shining testament to a singular artist. For Brown, art was a means of self-revelation and self-investigation, a fact made abundantly clear by the autobiographical nature of her works. In the first book to fully explore Joan Brown's artistic career, Jacquelynn Bass focuses on Brown's use of universal and personal symbolism by analyzing one of her most celebrated paintings, The Bride. Both authors make extensive use of interviews that let Brown speak for herself about art and the creative process. 320 pages On bookstore shelves in October     [ Back to top ] .

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