LibGuides: Music : MUS 543/683: Music of the Renaissance

Timeline (1400-1600)

1400-1517: Early Renaissance

1369-1453 John Dunstable

1399-1474 Guillaume Dufay

1430-1505 Jakob Obrecht

1430-1494 Johannes Okegham

1450-1521 Josquin des Pres

1450-1517 Heinrich Isaak

1465 the first printed music

1517-1600: Late Renaissance

1505-1585 Thomas Tallis

1524 Johann Walther, along with Martin Luther, produces the first Lutheran hymnal

1525-1594 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

1532-1594 Orlando di Lasso

1547 Louis Bourgeois publishes his Reformed Psalter

Nova Musica/De Proportionibus
The Florentine Camerata: Documentary Studies and Translations (ed. Claude V. Palisca)
Includes eight theoretical essays from 1507-c.1589.
On the Modes (Part 4 of Le Istitutioni Harmoniche)
This 1983 edition of Gioseffo Zarlino's 1558 text includes an introduction by editor Claude Palisca.
De templo musicae (The Temple of Music)
A critical edition (ed. Peter Hauge, 2011) of a music theory text by Robert Fludd (1574-1637).
A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song -- William Bathe
c. 1587
Music in the Western World: A History in Documents (ed. Taruskin)
23 Renaissance-era writings are represented in this collection, including: a description of the music performed at the 1436 dedication of a cathedral in Florence; a collection of letters to various royalty by the Italian printer Ottaviano Petrucci, describing his music printing services; and an essay by Martin Luther describing the usefulness of music within the church.
Source Readings in Music History: The Renaissance (ed. Strunk)
Includes writings by Tinctorus, Zarlino, Palestrina, Pope Gregory XIII, and more.

Performing Medieval and Renaissance Music
Teaching and Performing Renaissance Choral Music: A Guide for Conductors and Performers
The Interpretation of Music (Chapter 7)
A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music

The Lion's Ear: Pope Leo X, the Renaissance Papacy, and Music
Published in 2012/U. of Michigan
The Sights and Sounds of Performance in Early Music
Published in 2009/Ashgate.
Machaut's Music: New Interpretations
Published in 2003/Boydell Press
Binchois Studies
Published in 2000/Oxford University
Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France
Published in 2000/U. of Chicago
Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles, and Contexts
Published in 1994/Cambridge
Twentieth-Century Views of Music History
Published in 1972/Charles Scribner's Sons
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Published in 1950/Norton
Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music
Published in 1966/Norton
The Journal of Renaissance and Baroque Music
No. 1 (Mar. 1946) through No. 4 (June 1947)/American Institute of Musicology