Readings for MHL 202
Weiss, Piero and Richard Taruskin, ed. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents. New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1984.
Chapter 12: “Before Notation.”
Chapter 14: “Musical Notation and its Consequences.”
Chapter 16: “The Emergence of Polyphony.”
Chapter 18: “The First Musical Avant-Garde.”
Chapter 19: “The Life of Francesco Landini.”
Chapter 21: “The ‘Fount and Origin’”
Chapter 26: “Josquin des Prez in the Eyes of His Contemporaries.”
Chapter 27: “Luther and Music.”
Chapter 29: “The Reformation in England.”
Chapter 36: “The Counter Reformation.”
Chapter 37: “Palestrina: Fact and Legend.”
Chapter 38: “Madrigals and Madrigalism.”
Chapter 42: “Renaissance Instrumentalists.”
Chapter 44: The Birth of a “New Music”
Chapter 45: The “Second Practice”
Chapter 46: The Earliest Operas
Chapter 47: Basso Continuo and Figured Bass