Product Description: John Dygon was the prior of St Augustine's monastery in Canterbury when Henry VIII dissolved the English Catholic Church during the 1530s and reorganised it under royal control. This volume features these two treatises, providing a transcription and English translation.

Product Description: 'Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries' shows Claude Palisca at the height of his powers, discussing the relationships between musical style and history, the influence of humanism on the revival of music theory, and competing notions of style.

Product Description: In Music in the Mirror, thirteen distinguished scholars explore the concept of music, music theory, and music literature as mirror images of one another—whether real or distorted. Encompassing the history of music and music theory and literature from the Middle Ages to the present, these essays, in their reconsideration of the relationships among music, theory, and literature, offer new approaches and articulate compelling visions for future research...read more

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Product Description: How did the ancient Greeks regard music? In many different ways, as the readings in Greek Views of Music reveal. This collection presents three entire treaties, as well as excerpted writings on music by Plato, Aristotle, and others...read more

Product Description: Book by Mathiesen, Thomas J.