Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music

by Iain Fenlon (Editor)

Overview

Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. 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 19 include: Ritual and Ceremony in the Spanish Royal Chapel, c. 1559-c. 1561; Urban Minstrels in Late Medieval Southern France; Mapping the Soundscapes: Church Music in English Towns 1450-1550; A New Look at Old-Roman Chant.

Contributors:
Bernadette Nelson, Gretchen Peters, Magnus Williamson, Andrew Wathey, Kenneth Levy

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521104500
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/19/2009
Series:	Early Music History , #25
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

1. Music, ritual and patronage at the Church of Our Lady, Antwerp Kristine K. Forney; 2. On the origin of neumes Kenneth Levy; 3. The fourth-century origin of the gradual James W. McKinnon; 4. Caron, Hayne, Compere: a transmission reassessment Gerald Montagna; 5. Instrumental music in the urban centres of Renaissance Germany Keith Polk; 6. New light on Oswald von Wolkenstein: central European traditions and Burgundian polyphony Lorenz Welker; 7. Two equal voices: a French song repertory with music for two more works of Oswald von Wolkenstein David Fallows; Reviews.