Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Musical Examples
Abbreviations
IntroductionReinhard Strohm:
I: Amnon Shiloah: Muslim and Jewish Musical Traditions of the Middle Ages
Part I: Musical Cultures of Muslims in Spain
Part II: Jewish Musical Traditions in Spain, Provence and Southern
Italy
II: Andrew Hughes: Late Medieval Plainchant for the Divine Office
III: Howard Mayer Brown and Keith Polk: Instrumental Music, C.1300 - C.1520
Part I: Instrumentalists
Part II: Musical Sources and Performance
Part III: Instruments: Their Groupings and their Repertories
IV: Walter Salmen: Dances and Dance Music, C.1300 - C.1530
V: Tom R. Ward: Polyphonic Music in Central Europe, C.1300 - C.1520
VI: Jan Herlinger: Music Theory of the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries
VII: Bonnie J. Blackburn: Music Theory and Musical Thinking after 1450
VIII: Reinhard Strohm: Music, Humanism, and the Idea of a 'Rebirth' of the Arts
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

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.

Reviews

... this challenging, informative, stimulating, and strangely satisfying volume. Music and Letters Students on interdisciplinary MA courses in medieval studies will certainly make use of it and I will be using it as a 'teacher book'. Music and Letters Hughes chapter [on chant] is gap-filling and revisionist compared with the normal treatment of chant by musicological textbooks, and it certainly gives a strong impression of the excitement of new work-in-progress. Music and Letters ... the chapter by Howard Mayer Brown and Keith Polk on instrumental music ... is a fine survey of a tricky topic. Early Music Review ... groundbreaking chapter by Andrew Hughes on chant composition. BBC Music Magazine