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Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music [Hardcover]

Tess Knighton (Editor), David Fallows (Editor)

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Hardcover: 428 pages
Publisher: Schirmer Books; 1st American Ed edition (13 Dec 1992)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0028712218
ISBN-13: 978-0028712215
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,117,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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BL An up to date survey of all aspects of early music Forty-five eminent writers and performers present their views and analyse the outstanding issues concerning music before 1600. How do we judge it? What are the main problems in its performance and appreciation? Where do we look for answers, and what help can we find in the figurative arts, manuscripts, and modern performance techniques? This book is intended for students of early music, university music departments, performers of early music. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Tess Knighton is Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and the editor of the journal Early Music. David Fallows is Reader in Music at Manchester University. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

great help 4 April 2008

By Checco - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

This book is a series of very short (sometimes just a couple of pages) articles on major issues about Medieval & Renaissance music. Great scholars explain the matter in a very succinct and accessible way. All the aspects of the musical phenomena are investigated. From notation, to performance, criticism, iconography, historical context, etc.
I strongly recommend this book to integrate a music history textbook because it allows the reader to consider exclusively some genres and some particular issues.

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Rich Collection of Essays by Great Music Historians 26 Aug 2008

By Customer Formerly Known as Giordano Bruno - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Hardcover

Readers of my many reviews of European music from the 11th to the 16th centuries have asked me more questions than I can find time to answer. This book does the job more eloquently than I ever could, including 49 essays by noted musicologists like Reinhard Strohm along with performing musicians of the caliber of Anthony Rooley and Paul Hillier. Here's a list of the subject sections:
1. The Music of the Past and the Modern Ear
2. Aspects of Music and Society
3. Questions of Form and Style
4. Using the Evidence
5. Pre-performance Decisions
6. Performance Techniques

Topic 3 is especially deep, covering the genres of vocal and instrumental music, the origins of medieval instruments, and the techniques of composition in the era before keyboards.

Some of the essays are clearly by scholars for scholars, but the majority will be comprehensible to anyone with a basic musical vocabulary.

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