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. It demands the highest standards of scholarship from its contributors, all of whom are leading academics in their fields. It gives preference to studies pursuing interdisciplinary approaches and to those developing novel methodological ideas. 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 fourteen include: Roger de Chabannes, cantor of St Martial, Limoges; Music in Corpus Christi procession of fifteenth-century Barcelona; Song masses in the Trent Codices: the Austrian connection; Confrerie, Bruderschaft and guild: the formation of musicians' fraternal organisations in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521104395
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/19/2009
Series:	Early Music History , #14
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(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.