MUSI 662: Introduction to Research in Music

This is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age.

Work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911. A four-volume study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio. Volume 1, opens with an examination of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque antecedents and origins of the oratorio. Volume 2, The Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Protestant Germany and England, Volume 3, The Oratorio in the Classical Era, continues and expands the study of oratorio history. Volume 4, surveys the history of 19th and 20th century oratorio.

"Monteverdi has been called "the creator of modern music"; and it is with the period of his innovations that this book begins.

This comprehensive reference covers 295 years of music history, year-by-year. Each entry contains a concise survey of world political and cultural highlights to provide context for the year's musical developments.

This collection presents three entire treaties, as well as excerpted writings on music by Plato, Aristotle, and others. Includes complete Harmonic Introduction, revised translations in light of recent scholarship. These selections not only illuminate Greek thinking about music, they also help us understand ideas about music set forth by medieval and Renaissance writers and theorists.

This is a detailed study of all the musical instruments mentioned in the Bible, using the resources of linguistics, organology, and ethnomusicology to identify and describe them. Every reference to an instrument is noted and all the misconceptions of translation are corrected. The Bible, as we know it in English, is a translation, and the history of biblical translations into Aramaic, Greek, Latin and other languages is one of guesswork.