"The Montpellier Codex (Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section Médecine, H.196) occupies a central place in scholarship on medieval music. This small book, packed with gorgeous gold leaf illuminations, historiated initials, and exquisite music calligraphy, is one of the most f…
The final section of the Montpellier Codex analysed in full for the first time, with major implications for late-medieval music.
Essays exploring the contents and contexts of the Montpellier codex's fascicle 8, including the manuscript's production, dating, function, and notation, as well as close readings of individual works which illuminate compositionally progressive features and interactions with exis…
This book focuses on the analysis of the late medieval chansons that use chromaticism in procreative ways. Covering the period of the trouveres through the mid-fifteenth century, Thomas Brothers examines the way in which accidentals function as an expressive tool, both at the le…
Volume 2 of 3. This monumental three-volume work on the Italian madrigal from its beginnings about 1500 to its decline in the 17th century is based on the research of 40 years, and is a cultural history of the development of Italian music. Mr. Einstein, renowned musicologist, su…
The "Musical examples" (p. [139]-255) include a number of complete vocal compositions from mss. or sixteenth-century printed sources, almost all of which appear here for the first time in a modern edition.