Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600) books

Robert Fludd (1574-1637) is well known among historians of science and philosophy for his intriguing work. 'The...  Read More >>

This book tells three interrelated stories that radically alter our perspective on plainchant reform at the turn...  Read More >>

The many complex and difficult issues relating to the performance of music from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries...  Read More >>

Although he is often identified as a Monteverdi scholar, the majority of Jeffrey Kurtzman’s work has focused on...  Read More >>

This volume presents a selection of scholarly studies of sacred and liturgical music of the fifteenth and sixteenth...  Read More >>

This collection of essays focuses on polyphonic settings of vernacular texts and examines their historical and stylistic...  Read More >>

This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The articles span...  Read More >>

This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate the complexity of European cultural history in the...  Read More >>

This selection of classic essays on music performance practice of the Middle Ages addresses the most crucial of...  Read More >>

Mattias Lundberg investigates the historical role of a deviant psalm-tone, the tonus peregrinus, focusing on its...  Read More >>

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Offering a new perspective on two major authors, Minear explores Shakespeare's and Milton's fascination with the...  Read More >>

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This volume explores the means and motives for the distribution of music during the Renaissance. The selected essays...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1992, Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance is the first book-length...  Read More >>

Investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600....  Read More >>

These essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Italian secular works of the late sixteenth...  Read More >>

A reflection on the idea of the ""composer"" in the medieval period, including a study of the individuals and groups...  Read More >>

Alfonso X (1221-84) ruled over the Crown of Castile from 1252 until his death. Known as ""the Wise,"" he oversaw...  Read More >>

This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariée or the unhappily married woman within...  Read More >>

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This book brings a new perspective to secular music sources from the Middle Ages and early modernity by viewing...  Read More >>

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For centuries of European history, singing for a person at the moment of death was considered to be the ideal accompaniment...  Read More >>