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Early Music

Books by Well-known Authors in the Field and Books About Individual Composers

Dolmetsch, Arnold. The Interpretation of the Music of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Revealed by Contemporary Evidence. ML467 .D65 1980

Campbell, Margaret. Dolmetsch: the Man and His Work. ML424.D65 C3 1975

Donington, Robert. The work and ideas of Arnold Dolmetsch; the Renaissance of Early Music. ML424.D65 D6

Donington, Robert. The Interpretation of Early Music. ML457 .D64 1975

Donington, Robert. A Performer’s Guide to Baroque Music. ML457 .D65 1973

Lawson, Colin and Robin Stowell. The Historical Performance of Music: An Introduction. ML457 .L39 1999

Munrow, David. Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. ML465 .M8

Neumann, Frederick. Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music with Special Emphasis on J. S. Bach.
MT80 .N48

Butt, John. Playing with History: The Historical Approach to Musical Performance. ML457 .B92 2002

Haskell, Harry. The Early Music Revival: A History. ML457 .H37 1988b

Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel. The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, Performance. ML172 .L44 2002
 

MODERN TRANSLATIONS OF EARLIER WORKS:

Bach, Carl Philipp Emmanuel. Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments. MT224 .B132
translation of:

Bach, Carl Philipp Emmanuel. Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu Spielen. MT224 .B13 2011

Mozart, Leopold. A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing. Translation of Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule. (1756). MT262 .M93 1951

Quantz, Johann Joachim. On Playing the Flute. Translation of Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen. (1752)  MT342 .Q313 2001
 

INDIVIDUAL COMPOSERS: this is only a very small selection of our holdings:

The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi by John Whenham & Richard Wistreich (editors) ML410.M77 C35 2007 

Claudio Monteverdi: a Research and Information Guide by Maria Virginia Acuña & Susan Lewis ML134.M66 L4 2018  Reference shelves STILL BEING PROCESSED

Tomas Luis de Victoria: a Guide to Research by Eugene Casjen Cramer
ML134.V6 C73 1998  Reference shelves


Adrian Willaert: a Guide to Research by David Kidger

ML134.W64 K52 2005  Reference shelves
 

Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina: a Guide to Research by Clara Marvin

ML134.P2 M27 2002  Reference shelves
 

William Byrd: a Research and Information Guide by Richard Turbet

ML134.B96 T9 2006 Reference shelves