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From: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: countertenor (Really Early Music)
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Date: Sun, 5-May-85 23:41:10 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  5 23:41:10 1985
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In article <10393@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>
>And on early music in general: all I know about the subject is what I've 
>gleaned from hundreds of record jackets. Anybody want to recommend books
>or references on the subject? (I know *nothing* about music, per se, so
>I'd get more out of books that didn't expect a technical musical background...)


I rather like R. Hoppin's MEDIEVAL MUSIC, Norton, 1978, ISBN 0 393 09090 6

It DOES tend to get technical, though.  I picked it up in like-new condition
at a used book store for $5.00, and have since learned that it is a rather 
standard college text on the subject.  It ties together with the Norton
ANTHOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL MUSIC.

I'm finding it useful for the anthology of medieval Polish Christmas carols
I'm editing... (In my copious spare time)

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