Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600) books

A translation of three works from the second half of the 13th century: Rutebeuf's Renart le Bestourné, the anonymous...  Read More >>

A study of medieval Marian laments, a performative genre that offered clerical and lay audiences a deeply inspiring...  Read More >>

Offers a new interpretation by employing a musical, literary, theological and political discussion. Encourages new...  Read More >>

A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to...  Read More >>

This book presents the first study of music in convent life in a single Hispanic city, Barcelona, during the early...  Read More >>

This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariée or the unhappily married woman within...  Read More >>

This book explores what happens when a lover’s lament is transplanted from the theatrical stage to the courtly chamber,...  Read More >>

This book explores what happens when a lover’s lament is transplanted from the theatrical stage to the courtly chamber,...  Read More >>

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This book presents a varied and nuanced analysis of the dynamics of the printing, publication, and trade of music...  Read More >>

Incorporating notational, musical, theological and historical...  Read More >>

This volume in the Cambridge History of Music series aims to recover how people in the sixteenth century experienced...  Read More >>

Gateways to Understanding Music, Second Edition, explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary...  Read More >>

Gateways to Understanding Music, Second Edition, explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary...  Read More >>

Gateways to Understanding Music, Second Edition, explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary...  Read More >>

Northern France and the Low Countries formed the crucible of Europe's most sophisticated music in the later Middle...  Read More >>

Andreas Loewe and Katherine Firth elucidate Luther’s theory and practice of the arts to reach audiences and convince...  Read More >>

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In A Performer's Guide To Transcribing, Editing, and Arranging Early Music, author Alon Schab lays out a clear,...  Read More >>

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Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore an essential question in...  Read More >>

Reference work for musicologists, music theorists, performers, and music lovers  Read More >>

This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d’amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque...  Read More >>