Historical Anthology of Music, Volume I: Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance Music: Revised Edition

by Archibald T. Davison

Book Overview

This great anthology of music literature makes available to all music lovers a wonderful storehouse of hitherto inaccessible treasure. The volume includes the development of Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance music from the beginning to 1600. Its more than 200 representative examples are individually complete compositions, each of sufficient length to illustrate clearly a form or style. The authors provide an explanatory commentary with bibliography,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674335406
• ISBN13: 9780674335400
• Release Date: February 1949
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"