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MUS 264 - History of Western Music I: Societal Context

Resources and Information for Researching Western Music from the earliest periods through the Baroque Period (~1750)

Musical Context

Composing Community in Late Medieval Music by Jane D. Hatter
Call Number: E-BOOK
Publication Date: 2019
Composers at Work by Jessie Ann Owens
Call Number: E-BOOK
Publication Date: 1998
The Critical Nexus by Charles M. Atkinson
Call Number: E-BOOK
Publication Date: 2009
Opera and Church Music, 1630-1750 by Nigel Fortune (Editor); Anthony Lewis (Editor)
Call Number: ML160 .N44 v.5
Publication Date: 1975
Renaissance and Baroque Music by Fredrich Blume; M. D. Herter Norton
Call Number: ML160.B655 R5
Publication Date: 1967
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music by Mark Everist (Editor)
Call Number: ML172 .C32 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Medieval Music by Richard H. Hoppin
Call Number: ML172 .H8
Publication Date: 1978
A History of Baroque Music by George J. Buelow
Call Number: ML193 .B76 2004
Publication Date: 2004
Mannerism in Italian Music and Culture, 1530-1630 by Maria R. Maniates
Call Number: ML290.2 .M36
Publication Date: 1979

Art & Fashion Context

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Call Number: CB361 .E52 1999 Reference
v.1-6
The Dictionary of Fashion History by C. W. Cunnington; P. E. Cunnington; Valerie Cumming
Call Number: REFERENCE GT507 .C86 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion by Valerie Steele
Call Number: REFERENCE GT507 .E53 2005
Publication Date: 2004
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture by Solomon H. Katz (Editor); Jonathan Katz (Editor); William Woys Weaver (Editor)
Call Number: GT2850 .E53 2003 Reference
ISBN: 0684805685
v.1-3
A Chronology of Art : A Timeline of Western Culture from Prehistory to the Present by Iain Zaczek (Editor)
Call Number: N5300 .C573 2018 Reference
ISBN: 9780500239810

Socio-Political Context

Economic and social history of Europe in the later Middle Ages (1300-1530) by James Westfall Thompson
Call Number: D117 .T53 1965
Publication Date: 1960
Europe in the late Middle Ages by J.R. Hale (Editor); J.R.L. Highfield (Editor); Beryl Smalley (Editor)
Call Number: D202 .H3 1965
Publication Date: 1965
Encyclopedia of European Social History by Peter Stearns (Editor)
Call Number: HN373 .E63 2001 Reference
ISBN: 0684805820
6 volumes
Early Modern European Society by Henry Arthur Francis Kamen
Call Number: HN373 .K293 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Women in the Middle Ages by Angela Lucas
Call Number: HQ1147.G7 L82 1983
Publication Date: 1984