A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music

Part I: Repertoire -- I. Sacred Music ; Chant / William P. Mahrt ; Organum / Alejandro Enrique Planchart ; Motet & Cantilena / Julie E. Cumming ; Polyphonic Mass Ordinary / Alejandro Enrique Planchart -- II. Non-Liturgical Monophony ; Introduction / Elizabeth Aubrey ; Latin / Charles E. Brewer ; Occitan / Elizabeth Aubrey ; French / Elizabeth Aubrey ; Iberian / Manuel Pedro Ferreira ; Sephardic / Judith R. Cohen ; Italian / Blake Wilson ; German / Hubert Heinen ; English / Paul Hillier -- III. Lyric Forms post 1300 ; French Ars Nova / Charles E. Brewer ; Italian Ars Nova / Alexander Blachly ; Ars Subtilior / Lucy E. Cross ; Early Du Fay / Ross W. Duffin -- IV. Drama ; Liturgical / Timothy J. McGee ; Vernacular / David N. Klausner -- Part 2. Voices and Instruments -- V. The Voice in the Middle Ages ; Poetics as Technique / Barbara Thornton, interviewed by Lawrence Rosenwald -- VI. Bowed Strings ; Vielle before 1300 / Margriet Tindemans ; Vielle after 1300 / Mary Springfels ; Rebec / Sterling Jones ; Symphonia / Robert Green -- VII. Plucked Strings ; Harp / Herbert W. Myers ; Imagining the Early Medieval harp / Benjamin Bagby ; Playing the Late Medieval harp / Cheryl Ann Fulton ; Lute, Glittern, & Citole / Crawford Young -- VIII. Winds ; Flutes / Herbert W. Myers ; Reeds & Brass / Herbert W. Myers ; Bagpipe / Adam K. Gilbert -- IX. Keyboard & Related Types ; Organ / Kimberly Marshall ; String keyboards / Herbert W. Myers ; Psaltery & dulcimer / Herbert W. Myers -- X. Percussion ; Percussion / Peter Maund -- XI. Instrumental Usage ; Untexted repertoire / Timothy J. McGee ; Improvisation & accompaniment before 1300 / Margriet Tindemans ; Ornamentaion & improvisation after 1300 / Ralf Mattes -- Part 3: Theory & Practice -- XII. Essential Theory for Performers ; The Gamut, Solmization & Modes / William P. Mahrt ; Musica ficta / Lucy E. Cross ; Proportion / Alexander Blachly ; Notation & Editions / William P. Mahrt ; Tuning / Ross W. Duffin -- Select Discography -- Select Bibliography -- Index.