Cambridge Music Manuscripts, 900–1700

This volume marks the exhibition 'Cambridge Music Manuscripts, 900-1700', mounted in the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1982.

Iain Fenlon (Edited by)

9780521107372, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 August 2012

190 pages
24.4 x 17 x 1 cm, 0.31 kg

This volume marks the exhibition 'Cambridge Music Manuscripts, 900-1700', mounted in the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1982. It draws together fifty-three manuscripts of polyphony and monophony from the college and university libraries of Cambridge, all selected for their textual and historical importance. A full technical description of each source is followed by a critical appraisal, and in most cases at least one illustration is provided. Many of these manuscripts have never been adequately described in print, and this book will be a valuable work of reference for musicologists, historians and paleographers. Its plates will also provide a varied selection of transcription exercises for students of notation.

List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
The catalogue.

Subject Areas: Bibliographies, catalogues [GBCR]