Aspects of early music and performance.

9780404646011

Aspects of early music and performance.

Davidson, Audrey Ekdahl.

AMS Press

2008

218 pages

$92.50

Hardcover

AMS studies in music; no.1

ML1400

This collection contains 12 essays on early music by late musician and scholar Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, on composers such as Palestrina, John Dowland, Henry Lawes, and Hildegard of Bingen; pieces such as the Planctus Mariae and Ludus Daniels by anonymous composers; and discussions of performance practice and English Renaissance texts by Milton, Sir Philip Sydney, and George Herbert. Some essays have not been previously published.

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