Jeremy Yudkin, Music in Medieval Europe
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1989), required purchase.
Includes many complete musical examples to serve as an anthology.
Note: This book is currently out of print. The
instructor will provide copies to the class.
Allan W. Atlas, Renaissance Music (New York: Norton, 1998),
required purchase.
Allan W. Atlas, Anthology of Renaissance Music (New York:
Norton, 1998), required purchase.
Howard Mayer Brown and Louise K. Stein, Music in the
Renaissance, 2d ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1999).
J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca, A
History of Western Music, 8th edition (New York: Norton, 2010).
J. Peter Burkholder and Claude V. Palisca, edd., Norton
Anthology of Western Music, 6th ed., vol. 1 (New York: Norton, 2010).
Every piece in this collection can be heard on the accompanying 14-CD set,
Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music.
James McKinnon, ed., Antiquity and the Middle Ages
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1991).
Tess Knighton and David Fallows, eds., Companion to Medieval
and Renaissance Music (New York: Schirmer, 1992).
Sarum
mass, a full liturgical performance of a late
medieval English mass (priest's blog with videos). In addition to the
Sarum Chant, you hear Thomas Tallis' mass Puer natus, the
processional motet Videte miraculum, and John Sheppard, Gaude
Maria.
Performances
of selections from the Atlas Renaissance
anthology (YouTube Playlist)