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)

9780521104333, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2009

332 pages
23 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.5 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 six include: On the question of psalmody in the ancient synagogue; Music and grammar: imitation and analogy in Morales and the Spanish humanists; and a Florentine chansonnier of the early sixteenth century.

1. A Florentine chansonnier of the early sixteenth century: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Magliabechi xix 117 Lawrence F. Bernstein
2. Some non-conflicting attributions and some newly anonymous compositions from the early sixteenth century Stanley Boorman
3. On the question of psalmody in the ancient synagogue James W. McKinnon
4. Text declamation as a determinant of melodic form in the Old Roman eighth-mode tracts Edward Nowacki
5. Music and grammar: imitation and analogy in Morales and the Spanish humanists Jo-Ann Reif
6. On the origins of Trent 87 and 922 Peter Wright
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Subject Areas: Music [AV]