Early music (up to c 1000 CE) books

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Although 'Early Music' as a term of reference has now replaced 'ancient', 'old', or 'pre-classical', performance...  Read More >>

This is the final volume in the set of four collections of Michel Huglo's articles to be published in the Variorum...  Read More >>

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Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His ""Dialogue...  Read More >>

Inside Early Music attempts to explain the history of the movement, which performs music with period instruments...  Read More >>

This collection gathers Margaret Bent's influential writings on this controversial subject from the past thirty...  Read More >>

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Many illuminated manuscripts similarly contain detailed depictions of musicians with their instruments providing...  Read More >>

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This is the first in-depth survey of the oboe during its Golden Age, tracing the history of the instrument from...  Read More >>

A collection of the surviving remains of ancient Greek music (fifth century BC to third or fourth century AD) as...  Read More >>

This volume presents an introduction to the study of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Trajan. Chapters...  Read More >>

In his final accomplishment of an extraordinary distinguished career, the author considers the musical practices...  Read More >>

This annotated survey identifies and evaluates the published literature of chamber and concertante music originally...  Read More >>

An introduction to the study of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Trahan, with suggestions for further...  Read More >>

This is a study of how sacred and secular music was actually sung during the Middle Ages. The source of the information...  Read More >>

How many traditions of oral chant existed before the tenth century? What precursors might there have been to the...  Read More >>

First Published in 1998. This book has grown out of the author's research about Iraq and Palestine 1932-41, written...  Read More >>

How did the ancient Greeks regard music? In many different ways, as the readings in Greek Views of Music reveal....  Read More >>

Aristophanes' comedies were musical as much as dramatic performances. The nearest we can get to the scores is to...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume about Byzantine chant use different approaches to uncover the early development...  Read More >>

Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, this book reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding...  Read More >>

Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, this book reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding...  Read More >>

This work attempts to catalogue all the extant British music intended for performance on a solo keyboard instrument,...  Read More >>