Download or read book Historical Anthology of Music: Oriental, medieval and Renaissance music written by Archibald Thompson Davison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1949 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This great anthology of music literature makes available to all music lovers a wonderful storehouse of hitherto inaccessible treasure. The volume includes the development of Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance music from the beginning to 1600. Its more than 200 representative examples are individually complete compositions, each of sufficient length to illustrate clearly a form or style. The authors provide an explanatory commentary with bibliography, English translations of foreign texts, and an index. The Library Journal says of it, "in short, Volume 1 of the music historian's classic dreams…No competitors on the market. Highly recommended."