Companion to Medieval & Renaissance Music (Paper) - Softcover

Knighton, Tk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520210816 ISBN 13: 9780520210813

Publisher: University of California Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"Fallows and Knighton have gone a significant distance towards breaking down the barriers that separate the several different early music constituencies. Collecting such a diverse set of essays was a brave, interesting, and largely successful project."--Timothy J. McGee, "Notes

About the Author:

Tess Knighton is a lecturer in music history at Cambridge University and the editor of Early Music. David Fallows teaches at the University of Manchester and is the author of Dufay (1982) and Book and Music Review Editor of Early Music.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0520210816
• ISBN 13: 9780520210813
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428