Product Description: This handbook is a valuable manual for both scholars of works of art with musical subjects and those who need a system to catalog art collections. The authors wanted to save others the time and effort of devising a workable cataloging system for their own collections...read more

Product Description: This work lists and describes all of the 400 books containing music for instruments that were published during the sixteenth century, when instrumental music was born. This bibliography covers music for virtually every sixteenth-century instrument, and every one of the usual combinations of instruments with voices: music for solo lute, guitar, vihuela, harpsicord or organ, music for voice and one accompanying instrument, and for instrumental ensembles, and treatises devoted to instrumental playing and such practices as ornamentation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This handbook, an entirely new work, is not simply another guide to the performance of music of the past; it is, rather, a book about the study of past performance. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Musica duorum of the composer Eustachio Romano, also known as Eustachius de Macionibus, was issued in Rome in 1521. Eustachio, who was a nobleman as well as a composer, dedicated this volume to the future Pope Julius III, offering these small chamber works to refresh the prelate's spirits when he tired of weightier studies...read more