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

Includes information about William Byrd's youthful musical training, and reveals how in his adult life his music...  Read More >>

Music of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England....  Read More >>

Treats the matter of musical relations between England and continental Europe during the first decades of the Tudor...  Read More >>

A collection of chapters invited from some of the leading music researchers that consider the meanings and roles...  Read More >>

From the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, devotional music played a fundamental role...  Read More >>

Using the influential Venetian composer Adrian Willaert's (1490-1562) music, this book reconstructs his innovative...  Read More >>

The experience of music performance is always far more than the sum of its sounds, and evidence for playing and...  Read More >>

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Franca Trinchieri Camiz's contributions to the field of art history and music were the spur to the editor's decision...  Read More >>

Peter Philips (1561-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting...  Read More >>

Examines the musical culture of sixteenth-century Milan via its life within the city's most influential social institutions...  Read More >>

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During the Reformation, the Book of Psalms became one of the most well-known books of the Bible. This was particularly...  Read More >>

Aimed at those engaged by music and the liturgy, active researchers and students, this book presents the findings...  Read More >>

The carole was the principal social dance in France and England from c 1100 to c 1400 and was frequently mentioned...  Read More >>

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) was the most important and influential German composer of the seventeenth century. In...  Read More >>

This book studies the uses of orality in Italian society, across all classes, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth...  Read More >>

For centuries, the augmented sixth sonority has fascinated composers and intrigued music analysts. This work presents...  Read More >>

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Drawing upon an array of sources from archives in Leipzig, Dresden and Halle, this work illuminates culture in Leipzig...  Read More >>

Gretchen Peters reconstructs the music of everyday life in late medieval France through hundreds of newly uncovered...  Read More >>

Presents a full-length study of music among the ancient Israelites, the ancient Jews and the early Christians in...  Read More >>

Pathbreaking study of a vast and intriguing repertoire: arrangements for keyboard instruments of songs, arias, and...  Read More >>

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Works from the French Renaissance for four-string guitar from a publication by Morlaye's ""First Book of Songs,...  Read More >>