Early music (up to c 1000 CE) books

144 books were found.

Djoliba Crossing: Journeys into West African Music and Culture

Djoliba Crossing: Journeys into West African Music and...

Author: Dave Kobrenski
ISBN: 9780982668948
Format: Paperback
$90.54

"Discover the music and culture of West Africa in this beautifully illustrated account of an artist's adventures...  Read More >>

Songs of Joshua Tree: An Odyssey Through the Music History of the Park and Its Surrounds

Songs of Joshua Tree: An Odyssey Through the Music History...

Author: Lauren Beth Eisenberg Davis
ISBN: 9781543971910
Format: Paperback
$32.99

"Living alone at the remote Lost Horse Cabin - beyond the Service Road Only sign, beyond the Locked Gate Ahead sign,...  Read More >>

Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era

Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal...

Author: Marianna Ritchey
ISBN: 9780226640235
Format: Paperback
$52.95

The familiar old world of classical music, with its wealthy donors and ornate concert halls, is changing. The patronage...  Read More >>

Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era

Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal...

Author: Marianna Ritchey
ISBN: 9780226640068
Format: Hardback
$160.95

The familiar old world of classical music, with its wealthy donors and ornate concert halls, is changing. The patronage...  Read More >>

La théorie de la musique antique et médiévale

La théorie de la musique antique et médiévale

Author: Michel Huglo
ISBN: 9781138375611
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity: Archaeology and Written Sources

The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity: Archaeology...

Author: Agnes Garcia Ventura ,  Claudia Tavolieri
ISBN: 9781527506589
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This collection of eleven essays provides the reader with some valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing...  Read More >>

Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen

Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music...

Author: James Cook ,  Alexander Kolassa
ISBN: 9781138287471
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in...  Read More >>

Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era

Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era...

Author: Roger Mathew Grant (Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, Wesleyan University)
ISBN: 9780190858469
Format: Paperback
$64.95

Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era chronicles the shifting relationships between ideas about...  Read More >>

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval...

Author: Angela Mariani (Associate Professor of Musicology, Associate Professor of Musicology, Texas Tech University)
ISBN: 9780190631185
Format: Paperback
$80.95

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to...  Read More >>

The Hymnographic Book of Tropologion: Sources, Liturgy and Chant Repertory

The Hymnographic Book of Tropologion: Sources, Liturgy...

Author: Svetlana Kujumdzieva
ISBN: 9781138297814
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval...

Author: Angela Mariani (Associate Professor of Musicology, Associate Professor of Musicology, Texas Tech University)
ISBN: 9780190631178
Format: Hardback
$360.00

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to...  Read More >>

Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music

Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music...

Author: Lynn Whidden
ISBN: 9781554586134
Format: Paperback
$74.80

A study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, this is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec...  Read More >>

Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650: A Study of the Principal Sources

Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650: A Study of the Principal...

Author: Sally Harper
ISBN: 9781138252356
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Music in Wales has long been a neglected area. Scholars have been deterred both by the need for a knowledge of the...  Read More >>

Medieval Song in Romance Languages

Medieval Song in Romance Languages

Author: John Haines (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781316639801
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Proposing a new view of medieval music history, this study surveys songs in early Romance languages from around...  Read More >>

Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture, 1420–1600: Players of Function and Fantasy

Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture, 1420–1600:...

Author: Victor Coelho (Boston University) ,  Keith Polk (University of New Hampshire)
ISBN: 9781107145801
Format: Hardback
$157.84

This cultural history of instrumental music in Renaissance cities, courts and homes will appeal to a broad range...  Read More >>

Kinyras: The Divine Lyre

Kinyras: The Divine Lyre

Author: John Curtis Franklin ,  Wolfgang Heimpel
ISBN: 9780674088306
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Kinyras is the central culture-hero of early Cyprus. John Curtis Franklin seeks to harmonize Kinyras as a mythological...  Read More >>

The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music

The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation...

Author: Charles M. Atkinson (University Distinguished Professor of Musicology, University Distinguished Professor of Musicology, Ohio State University School of Music)
ISBN: 9780190273996
Format: Paperback
$70.95

The Critical Nexus is the first book to trace the development of the notational matrix of Western music from Antiquity...  Read More >>

Music and Musical Thought in Early India

Music and Musical Thought in Early India

Author: Lewis Rowell
ISBN: 9780226730332
Format: Paperback
$52.95

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Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta

Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta

Author: Margaret Bent
ISBN: 9781138966871
Format: Paperback
$101.00

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Music in the Georgian Novel

Music in the Georgian Novel

Author: Pierre Dubois (Universite Francois Rabelais, Tours)
ISBN: 9781107108509
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This book investigates the literary representation of music in the Georgian novel. Pierre Dubois analyses the meaning,...  Read More >>

Raga Sangeet: Understanding Hindustani Classical Vocal Music

Raga Sangeet: Understanding Hindustani Classical Vocal...

Author: Samarth Nagarkar
ISBN: 9781619273672
Format: Paperback
$49.14

In an incredible effort, this short book takes one through a musical journey of a lifetime. From mastering a single...  Read More >>

The Language of the Modes: Studies in the History of Polyphonic Modality

The Language of the Modes: Studies in the History of...

Author: Frans Wiering
ISBN: 9781138870338
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This work provides a study of modes in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspect of...  Read More >>

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