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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521104463
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/19/2009
Series:	Early Music History , #21
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.30(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.