The Ceremonial Musicians of Late Medieval Florence follows the development of Florentine musical ensembles, describing their duties and repertories, placing them in their political and social context,
Improvization in music, dance, drama, and the visual arts and inevitably in the intersection between them from the 15th through the 17th centuries in Europe is explored in 13 essays. The contributors
The Sound of Medieval Song is a study of how both scared and secular music were actually sung during the Middle Ages. The source of the information is the actual notation in the early manuscripts as w
In Europe the tradition of secular dance has continued unbroken until the present. In the late Middle Ages it was an important and frequent event—for the nobility a gracious way to entertain guests, f
McGee compiles 28 significant studies of instrumental music and their repertories in the Middle Ages, written between 1950 and 1998 and published mostly in music journals. Essays discuss instrument cl
Praise for the cloth edition:"Commendable in its scholarship... should prove of interest to linguists, medievalists, and Renaissance academicians, as well as to fastidious performers of early music."
