Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music

Knighton, Tess

With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty essays comment on the social, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period to offer fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and performance practices of the medieval and Renaissance periods.

EAN

9780520210813

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

26 March 1998

Pages

448