Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music

by Iain Fenlon

Overview

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. The scope is exceptionally broad and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music, and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume 19 include: Ritual and Ceremony in the Spanish Royal Chapel, c. 1559-c. 1561; Urban Minstrels in Late Medieval Southern France; Mapping the Soundscapes: Church Music in English Towns 1450-1550; A New Look at Old-Roman Chant.

Contributors:
Bernadette Nelson, Gretchen Peters, Magnus Williamson, Andrew Wathey, Kenneth Levy

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521104418
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/19/2009
Series:	Early Music History , #16
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

1. Diatonic ficta Margaret Bent; 2. Toledo, Rome and the legacy of Gaul Kenneth Levy; 3. Classical tragedy in the history of early opera in Rome Margaret Murata; 4. Reading and singing: on the genesis of occidental music-writing Leo Treitler; 5. Production, consumption and political function of seventeenth-century Italian opera Lorenzo Bianconi and Thomas Walker; 6. New sources of English fifteenth- and sixteenth-century polyphony Roger Bowers and Andrew Wathey; Reviews.