Early music (up to c 1000 CE) books

144 books were found.

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology,...

Author: Claude Calame ,  Janice Orion
ISBN: 9780822630630
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, this book reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding...  Read More >>

British Keyboard Music to c.1660: Sources and Thematic Index

British Keyboard Music to c.1660: Sources and Thematic...

Author: Virginia Brookes
ISBN: 9780198164258
Format: Hardback
$550.95

This work attempts to catalogue all the extant British music intended for performance on a solo keyboard instrument,...  Read More >>

Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance

Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance

Author: Richard Taruskin (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780195094589
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Text and Act, a collection of essays and reviews published over the last dozen years, offers an evaluation of the...  Read More >>

Re-Envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant

Re-Envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology...

Author: Peter Jeffery
ISBN: 9780226395807
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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The Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn: Instruments and Performance Practice, Genres and Styles

The Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn: Instruments and...

Author: Laszlo Somfai ,  Laszlo Somfai
ISBN: 9780226768144
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Presents a study of Haydn's keyboard sonatas. This title deals with Haydn's keyboard instruments and their development....  Read More >>

Editing Early Music

Editing Early Music

Author: John Caldwell (Reader in Music, Reader in Music, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198165446
Format: Paperback
$81.95

Editing Early Music is designed as a guide to editorial procedures suitable for music written from the Middle Ages...  Read More >>

Western Plainchant: A Handbook

Western Plainchant: A Handbook

Author: David Hiley (Professor, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Professor, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, University of Regensburg)
ISBN: 9780198165729
Format: Paperback
$286.95

A survey of all aspects of plainchant, including the liturgy, musical forms and styles, types of chant books, notation...  Read More >>

The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages

The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages

Author: Ann W. Astell
ISBN: 9780801482670
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Women Composers: Music by Women through the Ages: Composers Born between 1600 and 1699

Women Composers: Music by Women through the Ages: Composers...

Author: Martha Furman Schleifer (Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA) ,  Sylvia Glickman (Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, USA)
ISBN: 9780816105632
Format: Hardback
$488.40

This is part of an historical overview of music created by women from the 9th to the 20th century. This volume,...  Read More >>

Anglo-Norman Studies XVI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1993

Anglo-Norman Studies XVI: Proceedings of the Battle...

Author: Marjorie Chibnall ,  B.R. Kemp
ISBN: 9780851153667
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Papers in Anglo-Norman history including new research on music, the Bayeux Tapestry and Domesday studies.  Read More >>

A History of Arabian Music to the XIIIth Century

A History of Arabian Music to the XIIIth Century

Author: Henry George Farmer
ISBN: 9781898942016
Format: Hardback
$92.40

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Ancient Greek Music

Ancient Greek Music

Author: M. L. West
ISBN: 9780198149750
Format: Paperback
$142.95

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A Selection of Early Music: From the Repertoire of the Society for Old Music

A Selection of Early Music: From the Repertoire of the...

Author: Audrey Ekdahl Davidson ,  Matthew Steel
ISBN: 9781879288409
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Transcriptions were all designed for performances by the Society for Old Music, and were used in concerts for the...  Read More >>

The Dimension of Music in Islamic and Jewish Culture

The Dimension of Music in Islamic and Jewish Culture...

Author: Amnon Shiloah
ISBN: 9780860783527
Format: Hardback
$52.99

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Western Plainchant

Western Plainchant

Author: David Hiley
ISBN: 9780198162896
Format: Hardback
$275.00

A fully illustrated and self-contained survey of all aspects of plainchant, including the liturgy, musical forms...  Read More >>

The Polyphony of Saint Martial and Santiago de Compostela

The Polyphony of Saint Martial and Santiago de Compostela...

Author: Theodore Karp
ISBN: 9780520047440
Format: Hardback
$435.60

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The Early Flute

The Early Flute

Author: John Solum
ISBN: 9780198162537
Format: Hardback
$90.00

Focusing on the flutes used in the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras, this work details the history of the...  Read More >>

Music and Musical Thought in Early India

Music and Musical Thought in Early India

Author: Lewis Rowell
ISBN: 9780226730325
Format: Hardback
$277.20

Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology,...  Read More >>

Ancient Greek Music

Ancient Greek Music

Author: M. L. West
ISBN: 9780198148975
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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Play the Viol: The Complete Guide to Playing the Treble, Tenor, and Bass Viol

Play the Viol: The Complete Guide to Playing the Treble,...

Author: Alison Crum (, Professional viol player and teacher) ,  Sonia Jackson (Lecturer, Lecturer, University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780198163114
Format: Paperback
$265.00

A comprehensive guide to playing technique which provides for the specific requirements of the adult beginner. The...  Read More >>

Antiquity and the Middle Ages: From Ancient Greece to the 15th century

Antiquity and the Middle Ages: From Ancient Greece to...

Author: James McKinnon ,  Jim McKinnon
ISBN: 9780333530047
Format: Paperback
$50.00

Antiquity and the Middle Ages deals with the beginning of the Western Musical tradition. It discusses the music...  Read More >>

The Art of the Trumpet-maker

The Art of the Trumpet-maker

Author: Robert Barclay
ISBN: 9780198162230
Format: Hardback
$77.70

A study of the manufacture of brass instruments, particularly the trumpet, in Nuremberg during the 17th and 18th...  Read More >>

The Oxford History of English Music: Volume 1: From the Beginnings to c.1715

The Oxford History of English Music: Volume 1: From...

Author: John Caldwell (Senior Lecturer in Music, Oxford University, and Tutor in Music, Senior Lecturer in Music, Oxford University, and Tutor in Music, Keble College)
ISBN: 9780198161295
Format: Hardback
$382.95

This is the first volume of a magisterial survey of English music that charts its development from its beginnings...  Read More >>

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