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Medieval Studies - topics

Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and sub-disciplines characterize medieval studies in most topical areas, while topics can expand beyond the limits of the medieval frame. This guide offers entry points to this complex scholarship..

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Introductory books

Music in the Medieval West by Margot Fassler; Walter Frisch (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780393929157

Publication Date: 2014
Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century by Richard Taruskin
ISBN: 9780195384819

Publication Date: 2009
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music by Mark Everist (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521608619

Publication Date: 2011
Early Music by Thomas Forrest Kelly
ISBN: 9780199730766

Publication Date: 2011
The Cultural Context of Medieval Music by Nancy Van Deusen
ISBN: 9780275994129

Publication Date: 2011
The Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin
ISBN: 0195169794

Publication Date: 2005

Dictionaries/Encyclopedias

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
ISBN: 0028655257

Publication Date: 2000
Musson's cyclopaedia of music and musicians [microform] : covering the entire period of musical history from the earliest times to the season of 1909-10 by L.J. De Bekker
ISBN: 0665729723

Publication Date: 1910
The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater by Claude J. Summers (Editor)
ISBN: 9781573441988

Publication Date: 2004
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Stanley Sadie (Editor); John Tyrrell (Editor)
ISBN: 1561592390

Publication Date: 2003

History of music theory

The 'Ars Musica' Attributed to Magister Lambertus/Aristoteles by Christian Meyer; Karen Desmond; Barbara Haggh-Huglo
ISBN: 9781472439833

Publication Date: 2015
Ars Musice by Johannes; C. J. Mews
ISBN: 9781580441643

Publication Date: 2011
The Critical Nexus : tone-system, mode, and notation in early medieval music by Charles M. Atkinson
ISBN: 9780195148886

Publication Date: 2008
Apollo's Lyre : Greek music and music theory in antiquity and the Middle Ages by Thomas J. Mathiesen; Thomas Mathiesen
ISBN: 0803230796

Publication Date: 2000
Medieval Polyphony and Song by Helen Deeming; Frieda van der Heijden
ISBN: 9781316584781

Publication Date: 2023

What characterises medieval polyphony and song? Who composed this music, sang it, and wrote it down? Where and when did the different genres originate, and under what circumstances were they created and performed? This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the rich variety of polyphonic practices and song traditions during the Middle Ages.

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