Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century
By: by Richard Taruskin.
Series: The Oxford history of western music -- v.1
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195384819
Subjects: Music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism; Music -- 15th century -- History and criticism; Music -- 16th century -- History and criticism
Work titles: Oxford history of western music. 1, Earliest notations to the sixteenth century
Notes: Originally published as: Oxford history of western music.  Vol. 1, Earliest notations to the sixteenth century. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The curtain goes up; title: New styles and forms; title: Retheorizing music; title: Music of feudalism and fin' amors; title: Polyphony in practice and theory; title: Notre Dame de Paris; title: Music for an intellectual and political élite; title: Business math, politics, and Paradise : the ars nova; title: Machaut and his progeny; title: "A pleasant place" : music of the trecento; title: Island and mainland; title: Emblems and dynasties; title: Middle and low; title: Josquin and the humanists; title: A perfected art; title: The end of perfection; title: Commercial and literary music; title: Reformations and counter reformations; title: Pressure of radical humanism.