Textbook (used every week and accessible via code)
Burkholder, Grout and Palisca, A History of Western Music, 10th edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 2019).
Burkholder and Palisca, Norton Anthology of Western Music. Vol. 1, Ancient to Baroque. 8th edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 2019).
Further Reading (to be used in preparing individual projects)
Troubadour and Trouvere Song
Akehurst and Davis, A Handbook of the Troubadours (Berkely: University of California Press, 1995).
Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn, ‘Fictions of the Female Voice: The Women Troubadours’, Speculum 67/ 4 (1992): 865–91.
Egan, Margarita, The Vidas of the Troubadours (London: Routledge, 2019).
Gaunt, Simon, Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature (Cambridge, 1995)
Rachel May Golden, Mapping Medieval Identities in Occitanian Crusade Song (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Grau and Colton (eds), Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, 2022).
Huot, Sylvia, From Song to Book: the Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987)
Kay, Sarah. Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Leach, Elizabeth Eva, ‘Do trouvère melodies mean anything?’, Music Analysis, (2019), 38/1–2: 3–46.
Mason, Joseph W., ‘Structure and process in the Old French jeu-parti’, Music Analysis (2019), 38/1–2: 47–79.
Mason, Joseph W., Extreme Vocality and the Boundaries of Song in the Medieval Crusades. Journal of Musicology 1 January 2024; 41 (1): 73–114.
Peraino, Judith, Giving voice to love: song and self-expression from the troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Saltzstein, Jennifer, Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023)
Sixteenth-century polyphony
Baker, Geoffrey, Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008).
Blackburn, Bonnie, ‘For Whom do the Singers Sing’, Early Music 25 (1997), 593–609.
Fisher, Alexander, Music, Piety and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria (New York, 2014)
Haar, James, European music, 1520-1640 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2014)
Irving, D.R.M., Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manilla (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Leaver, Robin A., Luther’s Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications (Lutheran Quarterly Books, 2007)
Leaver, Robin A., Goostly Psalmes and Spirituall Songes: English and Dutch Metrical Psalms from Coverdale to Utenhove 1535–1566 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991)
Lockwood, The Counter Reformation and the Masses of Vincenzo Ruffo (Venice, 1970).
MacCulloch, Diarmaid, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490–1700 (London: Allen Lane, 2003)
MacCulloch, Diarmaid, The Later Reformation in England, 1547–1603 (Palgrave, 1990)
McCarthy, Kerry, Byrd (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013).
Monson, ‘The Council of Trent Revisited’ in The Journal of American Musicology 55 (2002), 1–37.
Oettinger, Rebecca Wagner, Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation (New York: Routledge, 2017)
Schmidt-Beste, ‘The Repertoire of the Papal Chapel after the Council of Trent: Tradition, Innovation, or Decline?’, Uno gentile et subtile ingenio: Studies in Renaissance Music in Honour of Bonnie J. Blackburn, ed. G. Filocamo and M.J. Bloxam (Turnhout, 2009), 109–120.
Sherr, Richard, The Josquin Companion (New York, 2000)
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century opera:
Carter, Tim and John Butt (eds), The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Carter, Tim and Richard A. Goldthwaite, Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013),
Cowart, Georgina The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014).
Cuisck, Suzanne, Francesca Caccini at the Medici court: music and the circulation of power
Heller, Wendy, Emblems of eloquence: opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004).
McClary, Susan, Desire and Pleasure in seventeenth-century music (Berkely: University of California Press, 2012).
Rosand, Ellen, Opera in seventeenth-century Venice: the creation of a genre ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991)
Thomas, Downing A., Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).