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

A collection of studies of the Exultet rolls of southern Italy, covering the text, music and ceremonial uses of...  Read More >>

A description of English liturgical chant as performed in the Church of England and transmitted to related churches...  Read More >>

First published in Rome in 1555, Nicola Vicentino's treatise was an influential music theory texts of the sixteenth...  Read More >>

This volume shows how music was used at the time of the plays' production, both through an examination of individual...  Read More >>

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

Drawing on new archival sources and a recently discovered portrait, Wegman explores the social and cultural conditions...  Read More >>

(Vocal Collection). Compiled and edited by Steven Stolen and Richard Walters, this collection has been specifically...  Read More >>

Shortly after 1600, the organist and choir director of the cathedral in Guatemala city collected, organized, and...  Read More >>

Tthe first medieval music-drama to be staged in a popular modern production by the legendary Noah Greenberg's New...  Read More >>

This book combines art and social history to present a reconstruction of the Medici wedding and in the process provides...  Read More >>

This book presents an introductory, contextual study of three centuries of musical activity at the four eleemosynary...  Read More >>

A study of the music played at the English courtly masques of early 17th-century England. The author combines documentary,...  Read More >>

This book details the cultural context, religious traditions, musical styles, and personal meaning of the music...  Read More >>

"The ""Cancionera de la Sablonara"" is a manuscript collection of 75 Spanish polyphonic art-songs, composed primarily...  Read More >>

Pioneering work on the musical material from the archives of the English court was undertaken by Nagel (1894), Lafontaine...  Read More >>

The Faber Early Organ Series is among the most comprehensive anthologies of early organ music ever published. In...  Read More >>

These studies on song repertories and performance practice in the 15th century examine the widely dispersed traces...  Read More >>

A facsimile of the fifteenth century Oxford manuscript, which contains the most comprehensive surviving collection...  Read More >>

'This is a remarkable and important book: impeccably scholarly yet very readable, brimming with ideas and thoroughly...  Read More >>

Pioneering work on the musical material from the archives of the English court was undertaken by Nagel (1894), Lafontaine...  Read More >>

These volumes contain a description of the source and a brief contextual statement before each entry, as well as...  Read More >>

In the 1530s, five Bassano brothers, who were outstanding wind players and instrument makers, emigrated from Venice...  Read More >>

This is a study of the flutes used in the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. It details the history of the...  Read More >>

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Survey of the relationship between music and literature in 14c France, Italy and Britain, with appendix of all songs...  Read More >>