Voices and Instruments of the Middle Ages, Instrumental Practice and Songs in France 1100-1300

Author

Christopher Page

Publisher

J M Dent, London, 1987

Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 x 16cm, 316pp

About the Book

Christopher Page is one of the most influential and distinguished scholars and performers of medieval music, and this was his first book. The essays presented here in his honour reflect the broad range of subject-matter, from the earliest polyphony to the conductus and motet of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the troubadour and trouvère repertories, song and dance, church music, medieval music theory, improvisation techniques, historiography of medieval music, musical iconography, instrumental music, performance practice and performing, that has characterised Page's major contribution to our knowledge of music of the Middle Ages.

Condition

This copy is in very good condition. 

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