Twenty-two essays by a music scholar who has been involved in the study of Byzantine music for more than thirty-five years focus upon the chants and liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox church

Product Description: The authors present a historical picture of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by exploring domains of imagination as revealed in courting songs, ballads, and folktales from across the Highlands but with particular reference to field areas in the western Highlands...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A representative selection of the great writings on music from the Renaissance, which marked the first stirrings of modern concepts among musicians. Chapters: (1) Musical Theorists of the Renaissance: Joannes Tinctoris, Bartolome Ramos, Pietro Aron, Gioseffe Zarlino, Pietro Cerone, & Thomas Morley; (2) Music in Renaissance Life & Thought: Baldassare Castiglione, Pierre de Ronsard, Giovanni de Bardi, G...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The definitive collection of great writings on music from ancient Greece through the twentieth century. Forty-five years after the appearance of the first edition, Oliver Strunk's monumental anthology of writings about music has been thoroughly revised and extended by a team of scholars working under the direction of musicologist Leo Treitler...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is one of the five volumes that is self-contained and devoted to the music of a particular period. The four chapters here feature readings on the Greek view of music, the early christian view, music as liberal art and music theory in the middle ages.

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: Source reading of Baroque era in music history.

Product Description: "With these volumes Professor Strunk opens up a whole world to the music lover and student, so that not highly trained scholars but every interested reader can discover the intellectual and aesthetic foundations of musical development...read more