Bibliography of Medieval Renaissance and Baroque Music with a Focus on Meter

Bent, Margaret. Ciconia, Prosdocimus, and the Workings of Musical Grammar as

Exemplified in O Felix Templum and O Padua. In Johannes Ciconia, Musicien De La
Transition, edited by Philippe Vendrix. 65-106. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003.
Bent, Margaret. Principles of Mensuration and Coloration: Virtuosity and Anomalies in
the Old Hall Manuscript. In Le Notazioni Della Polifonia Vocale Dei Secoli IX-XVII.
Antologia Parte Seconda: Secoli XV-XVII, edited by Antonio Delfino. Pisa: Edizioni
ETS.
Heinrich Besseler, Bourdon und Fauxbourdon: Studien zum Ursprung der
niederlandischen Musik (Leipzig: Breitkopfund Hirtel, 1950; rev. ed., 1974)
A. Blachly, Mensuration and tempo in 15th-century music: cut signatures in theory and
practice. (PhD diss., Columbia U., 1995)
A. Blachly, Mensura versus tactus. Quellen und Studien zur Musiktheorie des
Mittelalters,ii i, ed. M. Bernhard, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Verffentlichungen der Musikhistorischen Kommission, xv (Munich, 2001)
Mauro Botelho, "Meter and the Play of Ambiguity in the 3rd Brandenburg Concerto."
In Theory Only 11(4):1-35 (1990)
Anna Maria Busse Berger, "Cut Signs in Fifteenth-Century Musical Practice," in Music
in Renaissance Cities and Courts: Studies in Honor of Lewis Lockwood, ed. Jessie Ann
Owens and Anthony M. Cummings (Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1997)
Peter Cahn, "Zur Vorgeschichte des 'Opus perfectum et absolutum' in der
Musikauffassung um 1500," in Zeichen und Struktur in der Musik der Renaissance, ed.
Klaus Hortschansky (Kassel and New York: Birenreiter, 1989), 11-26.
Cox, Bobby Wayne. 1982. Pseudo-Augmentation in the Manuscript Bologna, Civico
Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Q 15(BL). Journal of Musicology, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Oct.,
1982), pp. 419-448
Ruth I. DeFord, On diminution and proportion in fifteenth-century music theory.
Journal of the American Musicological Society, (2005), pp.1-67.
DeFord, Ruth I. The Mensura of in the Works of Du Fay. Early Music 34/1 (2006):
11136.
Dumitrescu, Theodor. The Solmization Status of Sharps in the 15th and 16th Centuries.
Studi Musicali 33 (2004): 253-83.

L. Earp, "Lyrics for Reading and Lyrics for Singing." P. 101-131 in Rebecca Baltzer, The
Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991
Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, "Opusmusik," in Studia musicologica aesthetica, theoretica,
historica, ed. Elzbieta Dziebowska (Cracow: Polskie Wydaw. Muzyczne, 1979), 137-51
Jerry Haller Etheridge, "The Works of Johannes de Lymburgia" (Ph.D. diss., Indiana
University, 1972)
David Fallows, "Robert Morton's Songs: A Study of Styles in the Mid-15th-Century." Ph.
D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1978
David Fallows, "Embellishment and Urtext in the Fifteenth-Century Song Repertory,"
Basler Jahrbuch fiir historische Musikpraxis1 4 (1990): 59-85
David Fallows, The songs of Guillaume Dufay: critical commentary to the revision of
Corpus mensurabilis musicae, ser. 1, vol. vi, Musicological Studies and Documents, xlvii
(Neuhausen- Stuttgart, 1995)
Charles Hamm, A Chronology of the Works of Guillaume Dufay Based on a Study of
Mensural Practice. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964.
Andrew Kirkman & Philip Weller, "Binchois' Texts," Music and Letters 77 (1996): 56696.
John Z. McKay, "Four-Part Homorhythmic Model Progressions in the Mid-Seventeenth
Century," presented to the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (Charlotte,
2013)
Leach, Elizabeth Eva. Interpretation and Counterpoint: The Case of Guillaume De
Machauts De Toutes Flours (B 31). Music Analysis 19/3 (2000): 32151.
Long, Michael. Musical Tastes in Fourteenth-Century Italy: Notational Styles, Scholarly
Traditions, and Historical Circumstances. PhD dissertation, Princeton University, 1981.
David Maw, Meter and Word Setting: Revising Machauts Monophonic Virelais.
Current Musicology 74 (2002)
Memelsdorff, Pedro. Whats in a Sign? The [natural sign] and the Copying Process of a
Medieval Manuscript: The Codex Modena, Biblioteca Estense, .M.5.24 (Olim Lat.
568). Studi Musicali 30 (2001): 255-79.
Plumley, Yolanda. Playing the Citation Game in the Late 14th-Century Chanson. Early

Music 31/1 (2003): 2040.

Reynolds, Robert Davis. Evolution of Notational Practices in Manuscripts Written
between 14001450. PhD dissertation, Ohio State University, 1974.
E. Schroeder, Dissonance placement and stylistic change in the fifteenth century:
Tinctoris's rules and Dufay's practice. Journal of musicology, vii (1989)
Smilansky, Uri. Rethinking Ars Subtilior: Context, Language, Study and Performance.
PhD dissertation, University of Exeter, 2010.
Martin Staehelin, "Bemerkungen zum Verhiltnis von Werkcharakter und Filiation in der
Musik der Renaissance," in Datierung und Filiation von Musikhandschriften der
Josquin-Zeit, ed. Ludwig Finscher (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1983), 199-215
Stone, Anne. Glimpses of the Unwritten Tradition in Some Ars Subtilior Works.
Musica Disciplina 50 (1996): 5993.
Stone, Anne. Self-Reflexive Songs and Their Readers in the Late 14th Century. Early
Music 31/2 (2003): 18095.
Stoessel, Jason. The Interpretation of Unusual Mensuration Signs in the Ars Subtilior.
In A Late Medieval Songbook and Its Context: New Perspectives on the Chantilly Codex
(Bibliothque Du Chteau De Chantilly, Ms. 564) edited by Yolanda Plumley and Anne
Stone. 179202. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009.
Stoessel, Jason. Looking Back over the Missa Lardant Desir: Double Signatures and
Unusual Signs in Sources of Fifteenth-Century Music. Music & Letters 91/3 (2010):
31142.
C. Turner, Sub obscuritate quadam ostendens: Latin canon in the early Renaissance
motet. Early music, xxx (2002)
Rob C. Wegman, "Miserere supplicanti Dufay: The Creation and Transmission of
Guillaume Dufay's Missa Ave regina celorum," Journal of Musicology 13 (1995): 18-54,
Rob C. Wegman, "Petrus de Domarto's Missa Spiritus almus and the Early History of the
Four-Voice Mass in the Fifteenth Century," Early Music History 10 (1991): 235-303
Rob C. Wegman, "Another Mass by Busnoys?" Music and Letters 71 (1990): 1-19
Rob C. Wegman, "Concerning Tempo in the English Polyphonic Mass, c.1420-70," Acta

musicologica 6 1 (1989): 40- 65,

Walter Wiora, "Musica poetica und musikalisches Kunstwerk," in Festschrift Karl
Gustav Fellerer zum sechzigsten Geburtstag, ed. Heinrich Hiischen (Regensburg: G.
Bosse, 1962), 579-89

Massimiliano Guido and Peter Schubert, Unpacking the Box in Frescobaldi's Ricercari