Muisc In The French Secular Theatre, 1440-1550
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. 338 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated with musical examples. Scholarly work that show what musical pieces--chansons, street songs, dances, fanfares---would have been chosen for the French secular theatre performances during the Renaissance period. The author begins with an unprecedented correlation of plays and performances, makes a uique study of the whole scope of theatrical chansons, and offers a complete catalogue of songs mentioned in plays of the period, their various polyphonic settings and how they differed. Fine in very good dust jacket. Fine / very good. Item #E11669B
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