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Early Music Baines, Anthony, ed. Musical Instruments Through the Ages. Harmondsworth: Penguin, Useful text on musical instruments and their development. Donington, Robert. The Interpretation of Early Music. London: Faber and Faber, Essential comprehensive survey. Duckles, Vincent. Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography. London: Collier Macmillan, Survey of works on the subject. Fenlon, Iain, ed. Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981-1986. A thorough course of studies of pre-1700 music from different aspects (political, social, musicological, etc). Harrison, Frank L. Music in Medieval Britain. London Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963. The most thorough account of church music in Britain, up to the middle of the 16th century. MacClintock, Carol, ed. and trans. Readings in the History of Music in Performance. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1979. A valuable study. Montagu, Jeremy. The World of Medieval and Renaissance Musical Instruments. Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1976. Roche, Jerome and Elizabeth. A Dictionary of Early Music from the Troubadours to Monteverdi. London: Faber Music in association with Faber and Faber, 1981. Early Music. London: Oxford University Press, . Provides up-to-date essays, reviews, and discussion of the subject. Brown, Howard Mayer. Embellishing Sixteenth-Century Music. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. History and criticism. Haskell, Harry. The Early Music Revival: A History. London: Thames and Hudson, 1988. Historiographical survey. Kenyon, Nicholas, ed. Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Important study.
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