Product Description: This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.

Product Description: Silent Music explores the importance of music and liturgy in an eighteenth-century vision of Spanish culture and national identity. From 1750 to 1755, the Jesuit Andrés Marcos Burriel (1719-1762) and the calligrapher Francisco Xavier Santiago y Palomares (1728-1796) worked together in Toledo Cathedral for the Royal Commission on the Archives, which the government created to obtain evidence for the royal patronage of church benefices in Spain...read more

Product Description: Almost a thousand years of music are treated in this volume on the performance practice of the Middle Ages, covering monophony and polyphony, sacred and secular, genre and theory. The essays selected deal with the most crucial of performers' decisions: pitch, rhythm, and performing forces, as well as related matters such as proportions, tunings, and the need for ornamentation...read more

Product Description: An urgently needed guide to understanding medieval music to be used as a text for the university undergraduate, graduate students in music and interdisciplinary medieval studies, and for the professional musicologist and medievalist...read more

Product Description: Table of Contents : Yolanda Plumley and Anne Stone, Introduction. I . Reading the Repertory. Virginia Newes, Deception, Reversal, and Paradox. The Rondeaux of the Chantilly Codex in Context - Gilles Dulong, En relisant Solage - Elizabeth Eva Leach, Dead Famous: Mourning, Machaut, Music, and Renown in the Chantilly Codex - Gilles Dulong and Agathe Sultan, Nouvelles lectures des chansons notees dans le codex Chantilly - Elizabeth Randell Upton, Editing Chantilly Chansons: Scribal Procedures for Text Placement and Larger Questions of Musical Style...read more