Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music

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With contributions from a rangé of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and Dávid Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty cssays comment on the soeial, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period, offering fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and performance practices. Among the many distinguished contributors are Margaret Bent, Katherine Bergeron, Thomas Binkley, Roger Covey-Crump, Iáin Fenlon, James Haar, Andrew Lawrence-King, Dániel Leech-Wilkinson, Christopher Piage, Peter Phillips, Philip Pickett, John Potter, Anthony Rooley, Reinhard Strohm, and Rob Wegman. "With provocative writing and an exceptionally broad rangé of perspectives [Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music] invites dialogue not just on what we think about but alsó, and more importantly, on how we think about medieval and... Tovább

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With contributions from a rangé of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and Dávid Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty cssays comment on the soeial, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period, offering fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and performance practices. Among the many distinguished contributors are Margaret Bent, Katherine Bergeron, Thomas Binkley, Roger Covey-Crump, Iáin Fenlon, James Haar, Andrew Lawrence-King, Dániel Leech-Wilkinson, Christopher Piage, Peter Phillips, Philip Pickett, John Potter, Anthony Rooley, Reinhard Strohm, and Rob Wegman. "With provocative writing and an exceptionally broad rangé of perspectives [Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music] invites dialogue not just on what we think about but alsó, and more importantly, on how we think about medieval and Renaissance music." "A pleasure to read. . . . What I find particularly valuable is the emphasis on the skills and mentái tools needed for the study and performance of early music." "Fallows and Knighton have gone a significant distance towards breaking down the barriers that separate the several different early music constituencies. Collecting such a diverse set of essays was a brave, interesting, and largely successful project." 1fess Knighton is a lecturer in music history at Cambridge University and the editor of the journal Early Music, published by Oxford University Press. Dávid Fallows teaches at the University of Manchester and is the author of Dufay in the Master Musicians series. His Catálogue ofPolyphonk Songs 1415-1480 is fortheoming from Oxford University Press. Cover iUustration: Detail from Gardái ofDelights, by Cristoforo de' Predis, or school of (Bibfioteca Estense, Modena) iodm i n o-tííc/ín a Vissza