With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of mus

This is a practical and systematic introduction to all major categories of the ensemble repertory from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The book stresses ba

"An elegant anthology. The specialist will not miss the quiet sophistication with which the music has been selected and prepared. Some of it is printed here for

Manfred F. Bukofzer was born in Germany in 1910. He studied at the Conservatory in Frankfurt, and also at the University of Heidelberg, Berlin, and Basel, obtai

In spite of their widely disparate uses, Marian prayers and courtly love songs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance often show a stylistic similarity. This book