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

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This engaging study introduces Renaissance polyphony to a modern audience. Combining a detailed, nuanced appreciation...  Read More >>

This is the first dedicated study of the musical patronage of Roman baronial families in the sixteenth and early...  Read More >>

The Tropologion is considered the earliest known extant chant book from the early Christian world which was in use...  Read More >>

A fresh look at motets suggesting a revised analytical vocabulary, revealing both color and talea to be involved...  Read More >>

This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d’amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque...  Read More >>

In Hearing Homophony, Megan Kaes Long presents a groundbreaking model for understanding tonality and its origins,...  Read More >>

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The Safavid era (1501-1722) is one of the most important in the history of Persian culture, celebrated especially...  Read More >>

As a distinctive and attractive musical repertory, the 100-odd English carols of the fifteenth century have always...  Read More >>

The Speculum musicae of the early fourteenth century is by a long way the largest medieval treatise on music. For...  Read More >>

In this survey of surviving books of music published before 1640, David Greer has gleaned information about the...  Read More >>

John Taverner’s lectures on music constitute the only extant version of a complete university course in music in...  Read More >>

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The treatise on musica plana and musica mensurabilis written by Lambertus/Aristoteles is our main witness to thirteenth-century...  Read More >>

With a career that embraced the turbulent reigns of Henry VIII and all three of his children who succeeded him,...  Read More >>

A long-needed overview of, and guide to, the principles behind the treatises on music theory written in ancient...  Read More >>

This book explores the exchange of music, musicians and musical practice between Britain and the Continent in the...  Read More >>

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The 'cyclic' polyphonic Mass has long been seen as the pre-eminent musical genre of the late Middle Ages. This study...  Read More >>

Over seventy interviews were recorded for CEU Medieval Radio's program ‘Past Perfect!’ with the intent of bridging...  Read More >>

Through a close reading of the words of fourteenth-century musicians and theorists, Karen Desmond explores the crucial...  Read More >>

The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In her elegant...  Read More >>

First full monograph to focus entirely on the English-language songs set to music by Byrd.  Read More >>