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

Explores the use of music as therapy and shows how it operated in the hospital's institutional, social and historical...  Read More >>

A unique capacity of measured polyphony is to give precisely fixed places not only to musical notes, but also to...  Read More >>

This book develops an innovative approach for understanding the relationship between music and words in the works...  Read More >>

This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first...  Read More >>

Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore an essential question in...  Read More >>

This study uncovers the musical foundations and performance suggestions of books of hours, the prayer manuals that...  Read More >>

From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory addresses one of the broadest and most elusive open topics in music...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive account of the creation and staging of the earliest surviving complete 'opera',...  Read More >>

Authorship is a pertinent issue for historical musicology and musicians more widely.The discovery of new sources...  Read More >>

Integrating musical and poetic analysis, this book sheds new light on the experience of listening to Monteverdi's...  Read More >>

This monograph reveals a musical and textual quotation of Adam’s Aucun se sont loe incipit at the outset of Petrus’s...  Read More >>

In sixteenth-century Italy, Rome ranked second only to Venice as an important center for music book production....  Read More >>

Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France offers a new perspective on how medieval song expressed...  Read More >>

Scholars explore from many fresh angles the interweavings of two of the richest strands of human culture - music...  Read More >>

Where previous accounts of the Renaissance have not fully acknowledged the role that music played in this decisive...  Read More >>

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This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces...  Read More >>

Essays, imagery, and an illustrated dictionary for the instruments of the Byzantine era.  More than one hundred...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume explore the relationship between music and art in the Italian Renaissance across the long...  Read More >>

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Revealing the rich variety of polyphonic music and Latin and vernacular song that developed in Europe from the early...  Read More >>

Presents a critical study of the Cantiones in terms of their historical and confessional significance, assemblage,...  Read More >>

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A study of medieval Marian laments, a performative genre that offered clerical and lay audiences a deeply inspiring...  Read More >>

Offers a new interpretation by employing a musical, literary, theological and political discussion. Encourages new...  Read More >>