Further Reading: A Checklist of Books in English
This listing of recommended further reading in English is a supplement to the literature cited in the
Notes sections. It is largely confined to books, rather than journal articles where the cutting edge of
research is often found (and which are favored in the citations).
General Companions
Lang, Paul Henry. Music in Western Civilization. New York: Norton, 1941.
Lippman, Edward A. Musical Aesthetics: A Historical Reader. Three vols. Stuyvesant, >N.Y.:
Pendragon Press, 1986–90.
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Rev. ed., New York: Grove, 2000.
New Grove Dictionary of Opera. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Treitler, Leo, ed. Strunk’s Source Readings in Music History. Rev. ed., New York: Norton, 1998.
Weiss, Piero, and Richard Taruskin. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents, 2nd ed.,
Belmont CA: Thomson/Schirmer, 2007.The Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
General Sources
Atlas, Allan. Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400–1600. New York: Norton, 1998.
Brown, Howard Mayer, and Stanley Sadie. Performance Practice: Music before 1600. New York:
Norton, 1989.
Cattin, Giulio. Music of the Middle Ages. Vol. I, trans. Steven Botterill. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1984.
Fenlon, Iain, ed. Man and Music: The Renaissance. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1989.
———. Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources, and Text. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Gallo, F. Alberto. Music of the Middle Ages. Vol. II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Hoppin, Richard H. Medieval Music. New York: Norton, 1978.
Knighton, Tess, and David Fallows. Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music. New York:
Schirmer, 1992.
McKinnon, James, ed. Music and Society: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice Hall, 1991.
Perkins, Leeman L. Music in the Age of the Renaissance. New York: Norton, 1999.
Reese, Gustave. Music in the Middle Ages. 1940. Rev. ed., New York: Norton, 1964.
———. Music in the Renaissance. 1954. Rev. ed., New York: Norton, 1958.
Sternfeld, Frederick W., ed. Music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. New York: Praeger, 1973.
Strohm, Reinhard. The Rise of European Music, 1380–1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,