Source Readings in Music History

Source Readings in Music History
Author: William Oliver Strunk
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 1584
Release: 1998
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393037524

The definitive collection of great writings on music from ancient Greece through the twentieth century.

The Renaissance

The Renaissance
Author: John Robert Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780788164415

A representative selection of the great writings on music from the Renaissance, which marked the first stirrings of modern concepts among musicians. Chapters: (1) Musical Theorists of the Renaissance: Joannes Tinctoris, Bartolome Ramos, Pietro Aron, Gioseffe Zarlino, Pietro Cerone, and Thomas Morley; (2) Music in Renaissance Life and Thought: Baldassare Castiglione, Pierre de Ronsard, Giovanni de' Bardi, G.P. da Palestrina, Orlando di Lasso, William Byrd, and Henry Peacham; and (3) Reformation and Counter-Reformation: Martin Luther, Johann Walther, Jean Calvin, Claude Goudimel, Jacob de Kerle, and Pope Gregory XIII.