First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Musica ficta is the practice of sharpening or flattening certain notes to avoid awkward intervals in medieval and Renaissance music. This collection gathers Mar

Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval us

In this first-ever book on the solfeggio tradition, one of the pillars of eighteenth-century music education, author Nicholas Baragwanath illuminates how perfor

A detailed study of the sight-singing method introduced by the 11th-century monk Guido of Arezzo, in its intellectual context.