GILBERT REANEY POLYPHONIC MUSIC 11th TO 14th CENTURY

MANUSCRIPTS
OF
POLYPHONIC MUSIC

11th - EARLY 14th CENTURY

EDITED BY
GILBERT REANEY

INTERNATIONAL INVENTORY
OF MUSICAL SOURCES

Professor Gilbert Reaney 1924-2008 was a leading scholar of medieval and Renaissance music, literature and music theory, and in 1964 the first recipient of the Dent medal of the International Musicological Society. He studied Music and French at Sheffield University, from 1953 held research fellowships at the Sorbonne, Reading and Birmingham Universities, and from 1961 spent 36 years in the United States as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. As an established authority on medieval musical sources and was an obvious choice for editor of the two volumes dedicated to early music manuscripts published in the Repertoire International des Sources Musicales series of Catalogues (1966-1969).

This is the first of the volumes edited by Reaney with introductory matter in English, French, and German and contains descriptions, bibliography and thematic incipits for all the known polyphonic manuscripts up to the beginning of the Ars Nova period.
 A  pioneering work, the bible for scholars of early music.

876 Pages in total

Condition
In very good condition, the thin paper dustwrapper has creases, all complete with its original cardboard slipcase.

Size is 9½ by 6¾ inches, 2½ inches thick

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