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From: steve@brl-tgr.ARPA (Stephen Wolff <steve>)
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Subject: Re: countertenor (Really Early Music)
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 05:46:53 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 05:46:53 1985
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In article <10413@brl-tgr.ARPA> version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA brl-tgr!wmartin wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>........................................Anybody want to recommend books
>or references on the subject?

Hoppin is fine for the mediaeval stuff.  Moving right along, however, to the
Renaissance:  The classic text is "Music in the Renaissance" by the late
Gustav Reese (Revised Ed'n, W. W. Norton & Co. 1959, ISBN 0 393 09530 4);
it's over a thousand pages and for a hobbyist like me a lifetime's worth of
bedtime reading.  Look also in your library for "The New Oxford History of
Music" of which the first three volumes go through the 17th century (stay
away from the accompanying record set "The History of Music in Sound" as
their interpretive & instrumental style is sadly out of date.  Smaller and
more recent is "Music in the Renaissance" by Howard Mayer Brown (Prentice-
Hall 1976, ISBN 0 13 608497 in paperback).   And for the really dedicated
hacker there is the magazine "Early Music" published by Oxford University
Press; I was a charter subscriber but quit in 1980 when the price went to
$22.00 for four issues per year....
-- 
Stephen Wolff