Important Surveys of the Period
Musikleben in der Renaissance : Zwishcen Alltag und Fest by Call Number: ML172 .M875 2019From the Handbuch der Musik der Renaissance. In two volumes: Teilband I. Orte der Musik;
Teilband II. Räume der Musik
The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music (Online) by Call Number: ML172 .C3307 2019 (print version)Publication Date: 2019Considers music as something primarily experienced by people in their daily lives, and is freed from its conventional absorption within the abstraction of 'the Renaissance'. Include articles on: Confessions, identities, and rhetorics of power; Music in the early colonial world; Music and war; Interior spaces for music; Domestic music; and more.
The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music (Online) by Call Number: Reference (SV) ML172 .C33 2015 (print version)Publication Date: 2015Overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics.
Catalogs
- Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music, 1400-1550Call Number: Reference (SV) ML 135 .C4Includes entries for all known manuscript sources of polyphonic music in mensural notation for the period 1400-1550. In 5 vols. (1979-88).