Music M401
History and Literature of Music I:
Antiquity to 1750

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Fall 2007

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Anthologies and Books on Reserve

Table of Contents

1. Anthologies
2. Books
3. Surveys of the Social History of Music

1. Anthologies

When studying any type of music, it helps to hear or look at more than one piece to get a sense of how pieces in the same repertoire, of the same style, or by the same composer are alike or different from one another. The following anthologies are on reserve in the Music Library, and there are multiple copies of several of them in the stacks. Briscoe's anthology is particularly interesting, overthrowing the old lie that there are no great women composers by showing you their music. Fuller's anthology is superb, and you should certainly browse through it. Hoppin, Atlas, Hill, and Schulenberg includes just music from their respective periods.

• Schering, Arnold, ed. Geschichte der Musik in Beispielen [History of Music in Examples]. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1931. M2 .S3 1959

  Don't be thrown by the German; you can certainly read the music.

• Davison, Archibald T., and Apel, Willi, eds. Historical Anthology of Music. Vol. 1: Oriental, Medieval and Renaissance Music. Rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949. Vol. 2: Baroque, Rococo and Pre-Classical Music. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1950. M2 .D45 H62

  See also the descriptive notes in the back of each volume.

• Fuller, Sarah. The European Musical Heritage, 800-1750. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. M2 .E87

• Stolba, K Marie. The Development of Western Music: An Anthology. 3rd ed. Vol. 1. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998. ML160 .S86 1998 Suppl. v.1

• Briscoe, James R. Historical Anthology of Music by Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. M1 .H6

• Hoppin, Richard H. Anthology of Medieval Music. New York: W. W. Norton, 1978. ML172 .H8 suppl.

• Atlas, Allan W. Anthology of Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400-1600. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. MT91 .A58

• Hill, John Walter. Anthology of Baroque Music: Music in Western Europe, 1580-1750. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. 6132345

• Schulenberg, David. Music of the Baroque: An Anthology of Scores. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. MT6.5 .S3

2. Books

• Taruskin, Richard. The Oxford History of Western Music. 6 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ML160 .T18 v.1, 2, &6

  A new, magisterial overview of the history of Western music by one of the world's leading musicologists.

• Strunk, Oliver. Source Readings in Music History. Rev. ed. Leo Treitler, general editor. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. ML160 .S89 1998

  Like the Weiss-Taruskin anthology of writings about music, with longer, more substantial excerpts. The bibliography in HWM often refers to this collection.

• Bonds, Mark Evan. A History of Music in Western Culture. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2006. ML160 .B68 2006
  Stolba, K Marie. The Development of Western Music: A History. 3rd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998. ML160 .S86 1998

  Two recent textbooks that often treat additional topics or take a different approach from HWM.

• Lang, Paul Henry. Music in Western Civilization. New York: W. W. Norton, 1941. ML160 .L23

  A masterful account of the history of Western music in the context of Western culture. It is over sixty years old, and our knowledge and understanding of music history have changed a great deal, but Lang's synthesis is still a classic.

The following are specialized history texts, which cover their subjects in more detail than the broad survey in HWM.

• Mathiesen, Thomas J. Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. ML160 .M312

• Anderson, Warren D. Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. ML169 .A56

• Comotti, Giovanni. Music in Greek and Roman Culture. Trans. Rosaria V. Munson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. ML169 .C65

• Hoppin, Richard H. Medieval Music. New York: W. W. Norton, 1978. ML172 .H8

• Yudkin, Jeremy. Music in Medieval Europe. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1989. ML171 .Y82

• Atlas, Allan W. Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400-1600. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. ML172 .A84

• Perkins, Leeman L. Music in the Age of the Renaissance. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. ML172 .P47

• Brown, Howard Mayer, and Louise K. Stein. Music in the Renaissance. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1999. ML172 .B79 1999

• Buelow, George J. A History of Baroque Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. ML193 .B76

• Hill, John Walter. Baroque Music: Music in Western Europe, 1580-1750. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. ML193 .H54

• Schulenberg, David. Music of the Baroque. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. ML193 .S38

• Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1991. ML193 .P163 1991

• Grout, Donald Jay. A Short History of Opera. 3rd ed. with Hermine Weigel Williams. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. ML1700 .G83 1987

3. Surveys of the Social History of Music

• Raynor, Henry. A Social History of Music, from the Middle Ages to Beethoven. New York: Schocken, 1972. ML3795 .R276

  A fascinating history of musicians, the circumstances under which they worked, and the institutions they served. Though now dated, it is still illuminating.

The following are part of a series (Man and Music) on the social history of music.

• McKinnon, James. Antiquity and the Middle Ages: From Ancient Greece to the 15th Century. Man and Music, vol. 1. London: Macmillan, 1990. ML160 .A56

• Fenlon, Iain. The Renaissance: From the 1470s to the End of the 16th Century. Man and Music, vol. 2. London: Macmillan, 1989. ML172 .R39

• Price, Curtis, ed. The Early Baroque Era: From the Late 16th Century to the 1660s. Man and Music, vol. 3. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993. ML193 .E3 P7

• Buelow, George, ed. The Late Baroque Era: From the 1680s to 1740. Man and Music, vol. 4. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993. ML193 .L37

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