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Aspects of early music and performance /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davidson, Audrey Ekdahl
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : AMS Press, [2008]
Series:AMS studies in music (New York, N.Y.) ; no. 1.
Subjects:
Vocal music > Europe > History and criticism.
Music and literature.
Performance practice (Music)
Table of Contents:
  • Music and performance: Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo virtutum
  • The Cividale Planctus Mariae for modern performance
  • Music in the Beauvais Ludus Danielis
  • Alma redemptoris mater: the little clergeon's song
  • High, clear, and sweet: singing early music
  • Palestrina and mannerism
  • Five settings of songs attributed to Sir Philip Sidney
  • Milton's encomiastic sonnet to Henry Lawes
  • George Herbert and the celestial harmony
  • The origin and development of quasi-dramatic passion music
  • The Roskilde St. John Passion and its suppression
  • Vocal production and early music.