The Notation Of Medieval Music

The Notation of Medieval Music

This work studies the development of musical notation from the ninth to the fifteenth century, and contains sixty-two fascimiles. Originally published in 1957, this has long been the only concise study of the subject in English. For the Pendragon edition corrigenda and addenda have been incorporated into the text.

The Notation of Medieval Music

Medieval Music

Originally published in 1978, Medieval Music explores the fascinating development of medieval western music from its often obscure origins in the Jewish synagogue and early Church, to the mid-fifteenth century. The book is intended as a straightforward survey of medieval music and emphases the technical aspects such as form, style and notation. It is illustrated by nearly one hundred musical examples, the majority of which have been transcribed from original sources and many of which contains chapters on Latin chant and other forms of sacred monophony, secular song, early polyphony, the ars antiqua, French and Italian fourteenth-century music, English music, and fifteenth-century music. Each chapter is followed by a classified bibliography divided into musical sources, literary sources and modern studies; in addition to a comprehensive bibliography.