Music: Ancient & Medieval

From the emergence of plainsong to the end of the fourteenth century, this Companion covers all the key aspects of medieval music.

This Historical Dictionary of Choral Music examines choral music and practice in the Western world from the Medieval era to the 21st century, focusing mostly on familiar figures like Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Britten. But its scope is considerably broader, and it includes all sorts of music-religious, secular, and popular-from sources throughout the world.

Poetry and Music in Medieval France examines vernacular song in medieval France. She begins with the moment when French song first survives in writing in the early thirteenth century, and examines a large corpus of works which combine elements of narrative and song, as well as a range of genres which cross between different musical and literary categories.

6 DVDs with 36 half-hour lectures taught by Professor Dorsey Armstrong of Purdue University

CD by the Hilliard Ensemble featuring anonymous 14th & 15th century masters

italian, French, and English medieval instrumental music from the 13th and 14th centuries.

Dances from Terpsichore by Michael Praetorius