MUS4899: Music History and Theory Bibliography
This guide highlights the course reading list for MUS4899: The History and Theory of Bibliography.
Early Music
Renaissance Music by Call Number: ML172 .A84 1998XAtlas, Allen. Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe 1400-1600. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.
Focused foremost on the music and then on the social, political, and economic forces that combined to produce it, this book is the ideal undergraduate textbook for music history classes covering the period from c. 1400 to c. 1600.
Music in the Medieval West by Call Number: ML172 .F37 2014Fassler, Margot. Music in the Medieval West. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Medieval music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. In addition to highlighting the ceremonial and dramatic functions of medieval music (both sacred and secular), the author pays special attention to the exchange of musical ideas, the development of musical notation and other methods of transmission, and the role of women in musical culture.
Medieval Music by Call Number: ML172 .H8Hoppin, Richard. Medieval Music. New York: W.W. Norton, 1978.
The book will prove interesting and helpful to the increasing number of amateurs who have come to know and love the strangely beguiling qualities of medieval music. Perhaps it may contribute to a wider realization that the Middle Ages produced music worthy of careful study and admiration.
The Cambridge History of Musical Performance by Call Number: ML457 .C36 2012Lawson, Colin, and Robin Stowell, eds. The Cambridge History of musical Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Available as e-book or physical copy.
Reflecting the strong ongoing interest in the role of performers and performance, this History brings together research from leading scholars and historians and features contributions from accomplished performers, whose practical experiences give the volume a unique vitality. In particular note Part II, "Pre-Renaissance Performance," and Part III, "Performance in the Renaissance".
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