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Early Medieval Music, up to 1300 » Read Now
by Dom Anselm Hughes. 438 pgs.

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...and Oriental Music Early Medieval Music up to 1300 Ars Nova and...B. 18. Twelfth century EARLY MEDIEVAL MUSIC UP TO 1300 EDITED BY DOM...century to relate the metaphysics...
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Music in Medieval Britain » Read Now
by Frank L. Harrison. 491 pgs.

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Editing Early Music » Read Now
by John Caldwell. 152 pgs.

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Since its publication in 1985, Editing Early Music has been the guide to editorial procedures suitable for music written from the Middle Ages to about 1830. For this revised edition, Caldwell has made a number of corrections, brought the bibliography up to date, and added a Postscript on stemmatics and textual criticism.
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The Early Middle Ages to 1300 » Read Now
by Richard G. Crocker, David G. Hiley. 798 pgs.

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Drawing on the work of leading British and American scholars, this revised volume presents an informed, timely picture of music from the fourth through the fourteenth century A.D. It begins with a discussion of Christian chant in the Mediterranean and goes on to cover Gregorian chant, liturgical...
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Drawing on the work of leading British and American scholars, this revised volume presents an informed, timely picture of music from the fourth through the fourteenth century A.D. It begins with a discussion of Christian chant in the Mediterranean and goes on to cover Gregorian chant, liturgical drama, medieval song, instrumental music, and early polyphony down to the monumental organa composed at the cathedral of Notre Dame in the twelfth century. The new edition has been revised to incorporate the wealth of new research on early music done since Hughes's first edition was published in 1954, and includes over 200 musical examples and an exhaustive bibliography.
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Studies in Medieval & Renaissance Music » Read Now
by Manfred F. Bukofzer. 324 pgs.

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The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization -Christian, Islamic, and Judaic - from Constantine to Dante: A.D. 325-1300 (Chap. XXXIII "Medieval Music 326-1300") » Read Now
by Will Durant. 1253 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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A Biographical Dictionary of Old English Music » Read Now
by Jeffrey Pulver. 537 pgs.

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...possessed by any other country of Europe. We can produce medieval writers of treatises whose knowledge was sufficiently profound...We can enumerate the names of early...
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The Medieval Latin Hymn » Read Now
by Ruth Ellis Messenger. 156 pgs.

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The Mind of the Middle Ages, A.D. 200-1500: An Historical Survey (Chap. XII "Art and Music") » Read Now
by Frederick B. Artz. 590 pgs.

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Music in Late Medieval Bruges » Read Now
by Reinhard R. Strohm. 283 pgs.

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Although the musical achievements of the Franco-Flemish school have attracted many writers, this book is the first to show how the artists and composers of Bruges worked side by side to shape their acoustic and visual environment and to express their fellow citizens' spiritual needs in art. By...
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Although the musical achievements of the Franco-Flemish school have attracted many writers, this book is the first to show how the artists and composers of Bruges worked side by side to shape their acoustic and visual environment and to express their fellow citizens' spiritual needs in art. By combining the methods of modern musicology and those of local historiography, Strohm vividly recreates the music of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Flanders in its socio-economic context, from the pageants and minstrelsy of the court to popular entertainments and the earliest public concerts.
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Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers » Read Now
by Bernard D. Sherman. 436 pgs.

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The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era--commonly referred to as the early music movement--has become immensely popular in recent years. For instance, Billboard's "Top Classical Albums" of 1993 and 1994 featured Anonymous 4, who sing medieval music, and the best-selling...
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The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era--commonly referred to as the early music movement--has become immensely popular in recent years. For instance, Billboard's "Top Classical Albums" of 1993 and 1994 featured Anonymous 4, who sing medieval music, and the best-selling Beethoven recording of 1995 was a period-instruments symphony cycle led by John Eliot Gardiner, who is Deutsche Grammophon's top-selling living conductor. But the movement has generated as much controversy as it has best-selling records, not only about the merits of its results, but also about the validity of its approach. To what degree can we recreate long-lost performing styles? How important are historical period instruments for the performance of a piece? Why should musicians bother with historical information? Are they sacrificing art to scholarship? Now, in Inside Early Music, Bernard D. Sherman has invited many of the leading practitioners to speak out about their passion for early music--why they are attracted to this movement and how it shapes their work. Readers listen in on conversations with conductors Gardiner, William Christie, and Roger Norrington, Peter Phillips of the Tallis Scholars, vocalists Susan Hellauer of Anonymous 4, forte pianist Robert Levin, cellist Anner Bylsma, and many other leading artists. The book is divided into musical eras--Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classic and Romantic--with each interview focusing on particular composers or styles, touching on heated topics such as the debate over what is "authentic," the value of playing on period instruments, and how to interpret the composer's intentions. Whether debating how to perform Monteverdi's madrigals or comparing Andrew Lawrence-King's Renaissance harp playing to jazz, the performers convey not only a devotion to the spirit of period performance, but the joy of discovery as they struggle to bring the music most truthfully to life. Spurred on by Sherman's probing questions and immense knowledge of the subject, these conversations movingly document the aspirations, growing pains, and emerging maturity of the most exciting movement in contemporary classical performance, allowing each artist's personality and love for his or her craft to shine through. From medieval plainchant to Brahms' orchestral works, Inside Early Music takes readers-whether enthusiasts or detractors-behind the scenes to provide a masterful portrait of early music's controversies, challenges, and rewards.
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A History of Music in England » Read Now
by Ernest Walker. 468 pgs.

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...that this view is false, that medieval music is not inaccessible because it...H. B. Collins Plainsong and Medieval Music Society . work--the smoothness...volumes of the...
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A History of Western Music » Read Now
by Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca. 843 pgs.

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Recognized as one of the finest surveys of Western music in the English language, this distinguished book has enlightened a multitude of music lovers since it first appeared in 1960. Includes the latest advances in music scholarship.
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Listening and Ideology in Reformation and Counter-Reformation, in Musical Quarterly » Read Now
by Richard Freedman. 22 pgs.

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The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians in Siena during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance » Read Now
by Frank A. D'Accone. 866 pgs.

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Siena, blessed with neither the aristocratic nor the ecclesiastical patronage enjoyed by music in other northern Italian centers like Florence, nevertheless attracted first-rate composers and performers from all over Europe. As Frank A. D'Accone shows in this scrupulously documented study, policies...
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Siena, blessed with neither the aristocratic nor the ecclesiastical patronage enjoyed by music in other northern Italian centers like Florence, nevertheless attracted first-rate composers and performers from all over Europe. As Frank A. D'Accone shows in this scrupulously documented study, policies developed by the town to favor the common good formed the basis of Siena's ambitious musical programs. Based on decades of research in the town's archives, D'Accone's The Civic Muse brilliantly illuminates both the sacred and the secular aspects of more than three centuries of music and music-making in Siena. After detailing the history of music and liturgy at Siena's famous cathedral and of civic music at the Palazzo Pubblico, D'Accone describes the crucial role that music played in the daily life of the town, from public festivities for foreign dignitaries to private musical instruction. Putting Siena squarely on the Renaissance musical map, D'Accone's monumental study will interest both musicologists and historians of the Italian Renaissance.
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A Dictionary of Old English Music & Musical Instruments » Read Now
by Jeffrey Pulver. 250 pgs.

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...and so seldom contained in our music-books of equal date. Specimens...voice above the Cantus firmus in medieval three-part compositions. CANZONET...of type-scales upon...