Studies in the History of Italian Music and Music Theory

by Claude V. Palisca

Book Overview

Long acknowledged as a leading authority on Italian music of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Claude V. Palisca here collects nineteen essays that provide a corpus of significant research into the music of the Italian Renaissance. The book is in two parts, providing studies on the history of Italian music theory and studies in the history of Italian music. The thread that runs through the book is the interaction between music theory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198161670
• ISBN13: 9780198161677
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"