This classic work has served a generation of pianists, organists, and harpsichordists and remains a necessity for every serious keyboard musician today. It is a detailed chronological survey from the 14th century to the end of the 17th. Beginning with the earliest sources, Professor Apel examines national styles and individual composers as well as the careers of the many evolving musical forms and instruments. Much of the material is organized by period and by national style areas - from Poland to Portugal. A monument of scholarship, this indispensable reference work is also remarkably user-friendly and engagingly written throughout.

The History of Keyboard Music to 1700

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Apel, Willi

Music

Indiana University Press

Willi Apel's classic study of Gregorian chant is now in paperback. This extensive survey describes the evolutionary processes of its long history as well as its definition and terminology, the structure of the liturgy, the texts, the notation, the rhythm, the tonality, and the methods and forms of psalmody.

Gregorian Chant (Midland Book)

Discusses various surviving printed works from the seventeenth century that are intended for the violin. This book describes the music of some sixty Italian composers of this period and details the individual innovative aspects of the pieces, their form, and issues of performance practice. It is intended as a reference source.

Italian Violin Music of the Seventeenth Century (Music -- Scholarship and Performance)

Binkley, Thomas

Indiana Univ. Pr

Willi Apel's classic study of Gregorian chant is now in paperback. This extensive survey describes the evolutionary processes of its long history as well as its definition and terminology, the structure of the liturgy, the texts, the notation, the rhythm, the tonality, and the methods and forms of psalmody.

Numerous musical excerpts serve to support a careful study of early keyboard music

Harvard Dictionary of Music, 2nd Revised and Enlarged Edition

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

This great anthology of music literature makes available to all music lovers a wonderful storehouse of hitherto inaccessible treasure. The volume includes the development of Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance music from the beginning to 1600. Its more than 200 representative examples are individually complete compositions, each of sufficient length to illustrate clearly a form or style. The authors provide an explanatory commentary with bibliography, English translations of foreign texts, and an index. The "Library Journal" says of it, "in short, Volume 1 of the music historian's classic dreams No competitors on the market. Highly recommended."

Historical Anthology of Music, Volume I: Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance Music: Revised Edition

Davison, Archibald T.

Harvard University Press

Historical Anthology of Music, Volume II: Baroque, Rococo, and Pre-Classical Music

The Harvard Brief Dictionary of Music

Daniel, Ralph T.

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The History of Keyboard Music to 1700

Gregorian Chant (Midland Book)

The History of Keyboard Music to 1700

Italian Violin Music of the Seventeenth Century (Music -- Scholarship and Performance)

Gregorian Chant (Midland Book)

The History of Keyboard Music to 1700

Harvard Dictionary of Music, 2nd Revised and Enlarged Edition

Historical Anthology of Music, Volume I: Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance Music: Revised Edition

Historical Anthology of Music, Volume II: Baroque, Rococo, and Pre-Classical Music

The Harvard Brief Dictionary of Music