Music As Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages

ISBN13: 9780198162056ISBN10: 0198162057 Hardback, 536 pages
Nov 2001,  In Stock

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This entirely new volume of NOHM takes account of developments in late-medieval music scholarship, along with significant changes in the performance practice of the late-medieval repertory, witnessed during the latter half of the 20th century.

Features

  • The book covers areas missing in other histories of medieval music such as Andalusian slave-girls, Bohemian brotherhoods, Minstrels' guilds, microtones, chant composers, Jewish philosophers, and cemetery dances
  • It is written by dedicated scholarly researchers each of whom has an established reputation in international musicology.

Product Details

536 pages; 61 halftones/music ex.; ISBN13: 978-0-19-816205-6ISBN10: 0-19-816205-7

About the Author(s)

Reinhard Strohm, D.Phil., TU Berlin 1971, co-editor, Richard-Wagner Gesamtausgabe, 1970-1982; Lecturer in Music, King's College, University of London, 1975-1983; Professor of Music History, Yale University, 1983-1990; Reader, then Professor of Historical Musicology, King's College London, 1990-1996; Heather Professor of Music, Oxford University, 1996- Bonnie Jean Blackburn, D.Phil, University of Chicago; American musicologist who has studied with Edward Lowinsky and Howard Mayer Brown; Lecturer at the School of Music, Northwestern University; Visiting faculty member at both the University of Chicago, 1986, and SUNY, Buffalo, 1989-90; moved to Oxford in 1991and became a freelance editor; general editor of the series Monuments of Renaissance Music.

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