The Cambridge History of Medieval Music 2 Volume Hardback Set

This book charts the origins, development and spread of medieval Western European music from late antiquity to the end of the fourteenth century.

Mark Everist (Edited by), Thomas Forrest Kelly (Edited by)

9780521513487, Cambridge University Press

, published 9 August 2018

1226 pages, 54 b/w illus. 276 music examples
25.3 x 18.7 x 11 cm, 2.57 kg

'In two volumes containing thirty-nine essays, The Cambridge History of Medieval Music addresses central concerns: theoretical systems, the work concept, genre, practice, analysis, interpretation, performance, style, intertextuality, influences, sources, editions, dissemination, pedagogy, genre, people, institutions, and cultures … these essays articulate diverse practices and perspectives and offer bibliographies, figures, examples, summaries, historiographies, methodologies, and questions for understanding this long and complex period.' Jennifer Thomas, Renaissance Quarterly

Spanning a millennium of musical history, this monumental volume brings together nearly forty leading authorities to survey the music of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. All of the major aspects of medieval music are considered, making use of the latest research and thinking to discuss everything from the earliest genres of chant, through the music of the liturgy, to the riches of the vernacular song of the trouvères and troubadours. Alongside this account of the core repertory of monophony, The Cambridge History of Medieval Music tells the story of the birth of polyphonic music, and studies the genres of organum, conductus, motet and polyphonic song. Key composers of the period are introduced, such as Leoninus, Perotinus, Adam de la Halle, Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut, and other chapters examine topics ranging from musical theory and performance to institutions, culture and collections.

Volume 1: 1. Musical legacies from the ancient world Peter Jeffery
2. Origins and transmission of Franco-Roman chant Andreas Pfisterer
3. Sources of Romano-Frankish liturgy and music Joseph Dyer
4. Regional liturgies: Spanish, Beneventan, Gallican, Milanese Terence Bailey
5. Nova cantica Jeremy Llewellyn
6. Music and prosopography Margot Fassler
7. The silence of medieval singers Benjamin Bagby and Katarina Livljanic
8. Notation I Thomas Kelly
9. Tropes Andreas Haug
10. Sequence Lori Kruckenburg
11. Music theory Thomas Christensen
12. Vernacular song: lyric Elizabeth Aubrey
13. Vernacular song: romance Anne Ibos-Augé
14. Instruments and their music Nigel Wilkins
15. Teaching and learning music Anna-Maria Busse Berger
16. Music in drama David Klausner
17. The sources Stanley Boorman
18. The revival of medieval music John Haines
19. Medieval performance practice Timothy McGee
20. Issues in the modern performance of medieval music John Potter
Volume 2: 21. Institutions and foundations Alejandro Planchart
22. Notation II Lawrence Earp
23. Rhythm and metre John Caldwell
24. Tonal organisation in polyphony, 1150–1400 Peter Lefferts
25. Liturgy and plainchant, 1150–1570 Peter Lefferts and Roman Hankeln
26. Early polyphony James Grier
27. Notre Dame Edward Roesner
28. Liturgical polyphony after 1300 Karl Kügle
29. The emergence of polyphonic song Mark Everist
30. Vernacular song: polyphony Elizabeth Eva Leach
31. The thirteenth-century motet Rebecca Baltzer
32. The fourteenth-century motet Alice Clark
33. Latin song I: songs and songbooks from the ninth to the thirteenth century Helen Deeming
34. Latin song II: the music and texts of the conductus Thomas Payne
35. Trecento I: secular music Michael Cuthbert
36. Trecento II: sacred music and motets in Italy and the East from 1300 until the end of the schism Michael Cuthbert
37. Ars subtilior Anne Stone
38. Citational practice in the later Middle Ages Yolanda Plumley
39. 'Medieval music' or 'early European music'? Reinhard Strohm.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD], History [HB], Medieval & Renaissance music [c 1000 to c 1600 AVGC2], Theory of music & musicology [AVA], Music [AV], Performance art [AFKP]