Early music (up to c 1000 CE) books

144 books were found.

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: 9780754652632
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Provides the study of Welsh music before 1650 and draws on a wide range of sources in Welsh, Latin and English to...  Read More >>

Inequality: Social Class and Its Consequences

Inequality: Social Class and Its Consequences

Author: D. Stanley Eitzen ,  Janis E Johnston
ISBN: 9781594513572
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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Early Music

Early Music

Author: Denis Stevens
ISBN: 9781871082623
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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La théorie de la musique antique et médiévale

La théorie de la musique antique et médiévale

Author: Michel Huglo
ISBN: 9780860789468
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This is the final volume in the set of four collections of Michel Huglo's articles to be published in the Variorum...  Read More >>

Prehistoric Music of Ireland

Prehistoric Music of Ireland

Author: Simon O'Dwyer
ISBN: 9780752431291
Format: Paperback
$51.72

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Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music

Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music

Author: Vincenzo Galilei ,  Claude V. Palisca
ISBN: 9780300090451
Format: Hardback
$84.95

"Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His ""Dialogue...  Read More >>

Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers

Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers

Author: Bernard D. Sherman
ISBN: 9780195169454
Format: Paperback
$102.95

Inside Early Music attempts to explain the history of the movement, which performs music with period instruments...  Read More >>

Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta

Counterpoint, Composition and Musica Ficta

Author: Margaret Bent
ISBN: 9780815334972
Format: Hardback
$184.00

This collection gathers Margaret Bent's influential writings on this controversial subject from the past thirty...  Read More >>

Music of El Dorado: The Ethnomusicology of Ancient South American Cultures

Music of El Dorado: The Ethnomusicology of Ancient South...

Author: Dale A. Olsen
ISBN: 9780813024400
Format: Hardback
$158.27

This volume examines the music making of pre-Hispanic cultures in the northern and central Andes. It assesses anthropological...  Read More >>

Music in Medieval Manuscripts

Music in Medieval Manuscripts

Author: Nicolas Bell ,  Arthur Searle
ISBN: 9780802084323
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Many illuminated manuscripts similarly contain detailed depictions of musicians with their instruments providing...  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: 9780815333425
Format: Hardback
$184.00

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The Eloquent Oboe: A History of the Hautboy from 1640 to 1760

The Eloquent Oboe: A History of the Hautboy from 1640...

Author: Bruce Haynes
ISBN: 9780198166467
Format: Hardback
$430.95

This is the first in-depth survey of the oboe during its Golden Age, tracing the history of the instrument from...  Read More >>

Music in Ancient Greece and Rome

Music in Ancient Greece and Rome

Author: John G Landels
ISBN: 9780415248433
Format: Paperback
$64.00

This volume presents an introduction to the study of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Trajan. Chapters...  Read More >>

The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation of the Roman Mass Proper

The Advent Project: The Later Seventh-Century Creation...

Author: James W. McKinnon
ISBN: 9780520221987
Format: Hardback
$122.95

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Appraisals of Original Wind Music: A Survey and Guide

Appraisals of Original Wind Music: A Survey and Guide...

Author: David L. Clark
ISBN: 9780313309069
Format: Hardback
$114.00

This annotated survey identifies and evaluates the published literature of chamber and concertante music originally...  Read More >>

Music in Ancient Greece and Rome

Music in Ancient Greece and Rome

Author: John G Landels
ISBN: 9780415167765
Format: Hardback
$210.00

An introduction to the study of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Trahan, with suggestions for further...  Read More >>

The Sound of Medieval Song: Ornamentation and Vocal Style According to the Treatises

The Sound of Medieval Song: Ornamentation and Vocal...

Author: Timothy J. McGee (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of Toronto) ,  Randall A. Rosenfeld
ISBN: 9780198166191
Format: Hardback
$181.95

This is a study of how sacred and secular music was actually sung during the Middle Ages. The source of the information...  Read More >>

Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians

Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians

Author: Kenneth Levy
ISBN: 9780691017334
Format: Hardback
$260.00

How many traditions of oral chant existed before the tenth century? What precursors might there have been to the...  Read More >>

Essays On Armenian Music

Essays On Armenian Music

Author: Vrej Nersessian
ISBN: 9780900707490
Format: Hardback
$448.80

First Published in 1998. This book has grown out of the author's research about Iraq and Palestine 1932-41, written...  Read More >>

Strunk's Source Readings in Music History: Greek Views of Music

Strunk's Source Readings in Music History: Greek Views...

Author: Leo Treitler ,  Thomas J. Mathiesen
ISBN: 9780393966947
Format: Paperback
$63.95

How did the ancient Greeks regard music? In many different ways, as the readings in Greek Views of Music reveal....  Read More >>

The Songs of Aristophanes

The Songs of Aristophanes

Author: L. P. E. Parker (Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, St Hugh's College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198149446
Format: Hardback
$485.95

Aristophanes' comedies were musical as much as dramatic performances. The nearest we can get to the scores is to...  Read More >>

Byzantine Chant: Tradition & Reform -- Acts of a Meeting Held at the Danish Institute at Athens, 1993

Byzantine Chant: Tradition & Reform -- Acts of a Meeting...

Author: Troelsgard
ISBN: 9788772887333
Format: Paperback
$49.03

The contributors to this volume about Byzantine chant use different approaches to uncover the early development...  Read More >>

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology,...

Author: Claude Calame ,  Janice Orion
ISBN: 9780822630623
Format: Hardback
$126.95

Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, this book reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding...  Read More >>

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