Early Music History
Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century.

Iain Fenlon (Edited by)

9780521104319, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2009

392 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.57 kg

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 four include: Toledo, Rome and the legacy of Gaul; Classical tragedy in the history of early opera in Rome; and Reading and singing: on the genesis of occidental music-writing.

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
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Subject Areas: Music [AV]