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

"Adam de Saintvictor's liturgical poetry is considered some of the most beautiful and moving in the Western canon....  Read More >>

"This collection of medieval folk tales, translated and annotated by Walter Benary, offers a delightful glimpse...  Read More >>

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

"Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Sammlung von mittelalterlichen epischen Gedichten und Liedern von Konrad von...  Read More >>

"Bruder Hansens Marienlieder aus dem vierzehnten Jahrhundert sind ein wichtiger Beitrag zur deutschsprachigen Literatur....  Read More >>

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

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 >>

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

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 >>

A translation of three works from the second half of the 13th century: Rutebeuf's Renart le Bestourné, the anonymous...  Read More >>

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 >>

A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to...  Read More >>

This book presents the first study of music in convent life in a single Hispanic city, Barcelona, during the early...  Read More >>

This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariée or the unhappily married woman within...  Read More >>

This book explores what happens when a lover’s lament is transplanted from the theatrical stage to the courtly chamber,...  Read More >>

This book explores what happens when a lover’s lament is transplanted from the theatrical stage to the courtly chamber,...  Read More >>

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This book presents a varied and nuanced analysis of the dynamics of the printing, publication, and trade of music...  Read More >>

Incorporating notational, musical, theological and historical...  Read More >>

This volume in the Cambridge History of Music series aims to recover how people in the sixteenth century experienced...  Read More >>

Gateways to Understanding Music, Second Edition, explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary...  Read More >>