Anthology for Music in Western Civilization, Volume A: Antiquity through the Renaissance - Softcover

PART I: ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES. 1. Music in Ancient Greece. Euripides, ORESTES, "Stasimon Chorus" (fragment). Seikilos, Skolion (Epitaph), AS LONG AS YOU LIVE. 3. Music in the Monastery and Convent. Chants of Vespers, TECUM PRINCIPIUM, DIXIT DOMINUS, JESU, REDEMPTOR OMNIUM. Chants of the Mass for Christmas Day, PUER NATUS, KYRIE, GLORIA, VIDERUNT OMNES, ALLELUIA. 5. Later Medieval Chant: Tropes, Sequences, and the Liturgical Drama of Hildegard of Bingen. Tuotilo of St. Gall, Trope, HODIE CANTANDUS EST NOBIS. Tuotilo of St. Gall, Trope, OMNIPOTENS GENITOR. Anonymous, DIES IRAE. Hildegard of Bingen, O RUBOR SANGUINIS. Hildegard of Bingen, ORDO VIRTUTUM (excerpts). 6. Troubadours and Trouveres. Beatriz de Dia, A CHANTAR M'ER. Bernart de Ventadorn, CAN VEI LA LAUZETA. Richard the Lionheart, JA NUNS HONS PRIS NE DIRA. 7. Early Polyphony. Anonymous, VIDERUNT HEMANUEL. Albertus of Paris, CONGAUDEANT CATHOLICI. 8. Music in Medieval Paris: Polyphony at Notre Dame. Leoninus, VIDERUNT OMNES. Perotinus, VIDERUNT OMNES. 9. Music in the Cathedral Close and University: Conductus and Motet. Anonymous, ORIENTIS PARTIBUS. Philip the Chancellor, DIC, CHRISTI VERITAS. Anonymous motet, EL MOIS D'AVRIL/ O QUAM SANCTA /ET GAUDEBIT. Anonymous MOTET, ON PAROLE DE BATRE/A PARIS/FRESE NOUVELE. 11. Music at the Court of the French Kings. de Bus, ROMAN DE FAUVEL. Anonymous, QUARE FREMUERUNT GENTES. de Vitry, GARRIT GALLUS/IN NOVA FERT/NEUMA. Anonymous, LA QUINTE ESTAMPIE REAL. 12. Fourteenth-Century Music in Reims: Guillaume de Machaut. Machaut, HOQUETUS DAVID. Machaut, JE PUIS TROP BIEN. Machaut, DOUCE DAME JOLIE. Machaut, KYRIE of the MESSE DE NOSTRE DAME. 13. Avignon, Symbolic Scores, and the ARS SUBTILIOR. Cordier, TOUT PAR COMPAS SUY COMPOSES. Caserta, PAR LES BONS GEDEONS. PART II: THE LATE MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY RENAISSANCE. 14. Music in Florence, 1350-1450. Bologna, NON AL SUO AMANTE. Landini, OR SU, GENTILI SPIRTI. 15. Music at the Cathedral of Florence. Dufay, NUPER ROSARUM FLORES. 16. Music in England. Anonymous, SUMER IS ICUMEN IN. Anonymous, AGINCOURT CAROL. Dunstaple, QUAM PULCHRA ES. 17. Music at the Court of Burgundy. Binchois, DUEIL ANGOISSEUS. Dufay, LAMENTATIO SANCTAE MATRIS ECCLESIAE CONSTANTINOPOLITANAE. Dufay, KYRIE of the MISSA L'HOMME ARME. 18. Music at the French Royal Court. Ockeghem, PRENEZ SUR MOI. Ockeghem, KYRIE of the MISSA PROLATIONUM. Josquin, GUILLAUME SE VA CHAUFER. Basiron, SALVE REGINA. Busnoys, JE NE PUIS VIVRE AINSY. 19. Music in the Low Countries. Obrecht, CREDO of the MISSA SUB TUUM PRESIDIUM. Isaac, LA SPAGNA. PART III: THE LATE RENAISSANCE. 20. Popular Music in Florence, 1475-1540: Carnival Song and Lauda, Frottola, and Early Madrigal. de' Medici, SIAN GALANTI DI VALENZA. Savonarola, GIESU, SOMMO CONFORTO. Josquin, EL GRILLO E BUON CANTORE. Arcadelt, IL BIANCO E DOLCE CIGNO. Vecchi, IL BIANCO ET DOLCE CIGNO. 21. Josquin des Prez and Music in Ferrara. Josquin, SANCTUS of the MISSA HERCULES DUX FERRARIE. Josquin, MISERERE MEI, DEUS. 22. Music in Renaissance Paris. Sermisy, TANT QUE VIVRAY (four arrangements). Anonymous, Pavane and Galliard. 23. Renaissance Instruments and Instrumental Music. Fuenllana, FANTASIA. Merulo, CANZONA. 24. Music in Three German Cities: The Protestant-Catholic Confrontation. Isaac, INNSBRUCK, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN. Hofhaimer, SALVE REGINA for Organ. Luther, EIN FESTE BURG. Walter/Luther, EIN FESTE BURG, 4-part setting. Lassus, DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI. 25. Rome and the Music of the Counter-Reformation. Palestrina, SANCTUS of the MISSA AETERNA CHRISTI MUNERA. Palestrina, TU ES PETRUS. Palestrina, KYRIE of the MISSA TU ES PETRUS. 26. Music in Elizabethan England, Part I: Early Vocal Music. Henry VIII, PASTYME WITH GOOD COMPANYE. Tallis, Psalm 2. Byrd, O LORD, MAKE THY SERVANT, ELIZABETH. 27. Music in Elizabethan England, Part II: Instrumental Music and Later Vocal Music. Morley, GOE FROM MY WINDOW. Weelkes, AS VESTA WAS FROM LATMOS HILL DESCENDING. Dowland, FLOW MY TEARS. 28. The Later Madrigal in Ferrara and Mantua: Gesualdo and Monteverdi. Gesualdo, MORO, LASSO. Monteverdi, CRUDA AMARILLI.

The perfect companion to MUSIC IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION! With an introduction to, a score for, and lyrics and translation for each piece, ANTHOLOGY FOR MUSIC IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION, VOLUME A: ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE RENAISSANCE enhances your understanding of the major European styles, genres, and composers.