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Books about Renaissance and Baroque Music: A Preliminary Select Bibliography

The following is a list of books useful for general study of Renaissance and Baroque Music.

Books about Music

• Anderson, Nicholas. Baroque Music From Monteverdi to Handel. Preface by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994.
• Anthony, James R. French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau. Revised edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978. [first edition: ML270.2 .A6]
• Arnold, Denis, et al. The New Grove Italian Baroque Masters: Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Cavalli, Corelli, A. Scarlatti, Vivaldi, D. Scarlatti. (The Composer Biography Series.) New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984.
• Atlas, Allan W. Renaissance Music. (The Norton Introduction to Music History.) New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998.
• Baroque Music. 2 vols. (Garland Library of the History of Western Music, V-VI.) New York: Garland, 1985. [ML194 .B23 1985]
  Reprint of articles and essays originally published 1947-1982.
• Blume, Friedrich. Renaissance and Baroque Music: A Comprehensive Survey. Translated by M.D. Herter Norton. London: Faber and Faber, 1969. [ML160 .B655 R5]
  Reprint of the 1967 edition of W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., [New York].
  Originally published in Germany as an article in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
• Brown, Howard Mayer, and Louise K. Stein. Music in the Renaissance. Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1999. [(on order) ML172 .B86 1999]
  First edition: Brown, Howard Mayer. Music in the Renaissance. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976.
• Buelow, George J., editor. Music and Society: The Late Baroque Era, From the 1680s to 1740. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1994.
• Bukofzer, Manfred F. Music in the Baroque Era from Monteverdi to Bach. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., 1947. [ML193 .B8]
• Fenlon, Iain, editor. Man and Music: The Renaissance, From the 1470s to the End of the 16th Century. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1989. [ML172 .R44 1989]
• Gangwere, Blanche M. Music History During the Renaissance Period, 1425-1520: A Documented Chronology. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
• Grout, Donald Jay, and Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western Music. Fifth edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.
• Harman, Alec and Anthony Milner. Late Renaissance and Baroque Music. (Man and His Music, II.) New York: Schocken Books, [1969]. [ML193 .H37 1969]
• Knighton, Tess, and David Fallows, editors. Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music. New York: Schirmer Books, 1992.
• Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music. Third edition. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1991. [second edition: ML193 .P34 1981]
• Price, Curtis A., editor. Music and Society: The Early Baroque Era, From the Late 16th Century to the 1660s. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1994.
• Reese, Gustave. Fourscore Classics of Music Literature. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970. [ML160 .R33 1970]
  Reprint of the 1957 edition of Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., New York.
• Reese, Gustave. Music in the Renaissance. Revised edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., 1959. [ML172 .R42 1959]
• Reese, Gustave, et al. The New Grove High Renaissance Masters: Josquin, Palestrina, Lassus, Byrd, Victoria. (The Composer Biography Series.) New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984.
• Sadie, Julie Anne, compiler and editor. Companion to Baroque Music. Forward by Christopher Hogwood. New York: Schirmer Books, 1990. [ML193 .C56 1991]

Facsimiles of Treatises

• Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile. Second Series. 141+ vols. New York: Broude Brothers, [1965- ]. [M2 .M4882]

Anthologies of Musical Examples

• Anthology of Instrumental Music from the End of the Sixteenth to the End of the Seventeenth Century. Compiled and edited by Joseph Wilhelm von Wasielewski. New Introduction and Notes by John G. Suess. New York: Da Capo Press, 1974. [M2 .W225 1974]
  Reprint of the 1874 edition.
• Atlas, Allan W., editor. Anthology of Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400-1600. (The Norton Introduction to Music History.) New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998.
• Callon, Gordon James, editor. Music 2233, Baroque Music. [Anthology of Early Baroque Music.] Wolfville: Acadia University, 1997.
• Collegium musicum. [First Series.] Leo Schrade, general editor. 6 vols. New Haven: Department of Music, Graduate School, Yale University, 1955-1965. [M2 .C6436]
• Collegium musicum. Second Series. Leo Schrade, general editor/Robert Holzer, general editor. 13+ vols. Madison: A-R Editions, 1969- . [M2 .C64362]
• Das Chorwerk. 142+ vols. Wolfenbüttel: Möseler, [1929- ]. [M2 .C6325]
• Davison, Archibald T. and Willi Apel, editors. Historical Anthology of Music. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964. [M1 .D38 1949]
• Fellerer, Karl, editor. Anthology of Music: A Collection of Complete Musical Examples Illustrating the History of Music. 36 vols. Köln: Arno Volk-Verlag, 1959- . [M2 .M94513]
• Hortus musicus. 208+ vols. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1950- . [M2 .H67]
• MacClintock, Carol, editor. The Solo Song, 1580-1730; A Norton Music Anthology. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., 1973. [M1619 .M17 S6]
• Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile. First Series. 29+ vols. New York: Broude Brothers, [1965- ]. [M2 .M488]
• Performers' Facsimiles. 157+ vols. New York: Performers' Facsimiles [Broude Bros.], [1986- ]. [M2 .P465]
• Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era. Christoph Wolff, general editor. 97+ vols. Madison: A-R Editions, 1964- . [M2 .R238]
• Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance. James Haar, general editor. 119+ vols. Madison: A-R Editions, 1964- . [M2 .R2384]

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General Historical and Cultural Background

• Hale, John. The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. New York: Atheneum, 1994. [CB367 .H35 1994]
• Welch, Evelyn. Art and Society in Italy, 1350-1500. (Oxford History of Art.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Recordings (general)

• Guide des instruments baroques / Compendium of Baroque Musical Instruments / Erläuterungen zu den Barockinstrumenten. Ricercar Consort. 3 sound discs. Notes by Jérôme Lejeune in French with English and German translations inserted in container. Ricercar: RIC 93001. [M5 .G85 1993]
• Guide des instruments de la Renaissance / Erläuterungen zu den Renaissanceinstrumenten / Compendium of Renaissance Musical Instruments. 3 sound discs. Notes by Jérôme Lejeune in French, with English and German translations inserted in container. Ricercar: RIC 95001 .[M5 .G87 1996]

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Renaissance Music

• Claude Gervaise, Les huict bransles de pictou (Cinquiesme livre de danceries, 1550, fol. 6v-11)
• Claude Gervaise, Pavanne d'Angleterre, avec sa gaillarde ((Sixieme livre de danceries, 1555, fol. 3v-4)
• Josquin Desprez or Pierre de la Rue, Motet: Absalon, fili mi [FTP subdirectory (download absalon.sib)]

• [FTP directory containing the Sibelius files, to download. (when there, Right-Click on file name). There are many additional scores in the FTP directory that have not been proof read, so are without links to this page.]

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  Baroque Music

  [ J.S. Bach | Francesco Cavalli | G.F. Händel | Claudio Monteverdi | Henry Purcell | Heinrich Schütz | Georg Philipp Telemann | Antonio Vivaldi | Notes on GIF files & FTP ]
  
  
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Invention 1 in C major [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Invention 4 in D minor [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Invention 5 in Eb major [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Invention 12 in A major [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Invention 13 in A minor [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Sinfonia 8 in F major [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Sinfonia 12 in A major [transcribed from autograph] [GIF files: page 1, 2, 3]
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Organ Chorale, O Herre Gott, dein göttlich Wort (BWV 1110) from Music Library, Yale University MS LM 4708, pp. 110-111.

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• Francesco Cavalli, Canzon à 8, Musiche Sacre Concernenti (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1656)
• Francesco Cavalli, Messa Concertata: Agnus Dei, Musiche Sacre Concernenti (1656)
• Francesco Cavalli, “Nisi Dominus” (Psalm 126), Musiche Sacre Concernenti (1656)
• George Frideric Händel, "Caro figlio!", La Resurrezione, Pt. II
• George Frideric Händel, "Da tempeste il legno infranto", Giulio Cesare, Atto III sc. 9
• George Frideric Händel, Trio Sonata, Op. V no. 5 (Seven Sonatas or Trios for two Violins or German Flutes with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord or Violoncello...Opera Quinta. London: Printed for & sold by I. Walsh, n.d. [1739].)
• George Frideric Händel, Trio Sonata, Op. V no. 6 (Seven Sonatas...Opera Quinta... .)
• Claudio Monteverdi, "Cruda Amarilli", Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci (1605), no. 1
• Claudio Monteverdi, L’incoronazione di Poppea, final duet
• Henry Purcell, An Evening Hymn ("Now, now that the sun hath veil'd his light") (Harmonia Sacra, 1688, pp. 1-3)
• Henry Purcell, The God of Dreams, from The Indian Queen (1695), Act III, Scene 2 (Orpheus Britannicus, I 28-32)
• Henry Purcell, "Let the dreadful engines" from Don Quixote, Part I (1694), Act IV, Scene 1 (Orpheus Britannicus, I 243-248)
• Henry Purcell, "O Sing unto the Lord" The Gostling Manuscript, pp. 124-137
• Henry Purcell, "You twice ten hundred deities" / "By the croaking of the toad" from The Indian Queen (1695), Act III, Scene 2 (Orpheus Britannicus, I 25-28)

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• Heinrich Schütz, "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr", Anderer Theil kleiner geistlichen Concerten (Dresden, 1639), no. 22
• Heinrich Schütz, "Ich beuge meine Knie", Anderer Theil kleiner geistlichen Concerten (Dresden, 1639), no. 14
• Heinrich Schütz, "Ich werde nich sterben, sondern leben", Erster Theil, Symphoniarum sacrarum, secunda pars (Dresden, 1647), no. 6
• Heinrich Schütz, "Ich danke dir, Herr", Anderer Theil, Symphoniarum sacrarum, secunda pars (Dresden, 1647), no. 7
• Heinrich Schütz, "Von Aufgang der Sonnen", Symphoniarum sacrarum, secunda pars (Dresden, 1647), no. 22
• Georg Philipp Telemann, Quadri a violino, flauto traversière, viola da gamba e fondamento (Hamburg, 1730), Sonata in A major, first movement
• Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 no. 8, first movement

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• The GIF files are too large to print in a WWW browser such as Netscape.
  To print, each GIF file should be saved to disk, then loaded into a viewer such as Microsoft Photo Editor.
  
  
  
  Acadia Early Music Archive [GJC] 
  The Acadia Early Music Archive has many scores of Renaissance and Baroque Music that can be downloaded.
  The scores at the Acadia Early Music Archive are all in PostScript format. Consequently a PostScript printer is required to print the scores. The scores can be viewed (and printed with other printers) in a PostScript viewer, such as Ghostview.

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