MIP Recommends: Titles Inspired by EMM's "Hebrew Harmonies" Workshop
Couldn't make it to Early Music Michigan's "Hebrew Harmonies: Discovering Salamone Rossi?" Never fear, we've got a selection of titles inspired by the workshop, EMM's upcoming concert in November, and the organization's focus on early and rare music!
selected, translated, and annotated by Seth Brody
Paperback $19.95 / PDF $16.00
The commentary of Rabbi Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona (d. ca. 1245) on the Song of Songs is one of the most important texts of the first clearly identified circle of Kabbalists, those operating in the Catalonian town of Gerona at the middle of the thirteenth century.
introduction, translation, and commentary by Kathryn Starkey and Edith Wenzel
Paperback $34.95 / PDF $28.00
The medieval German poet called Neidhart is one of the most important poets of his time. Set in the village among peasant maidens and their boorish male counterparts, Neidhart's satirical songs stand in marked contrast to courtly love song and enrich our understanding of medieval literary culture. This book presents for the first time annotated English translations of a substantial collection of songs attributed to this prolific poet. Its source is the thirteenth-century Riedegg manuscript, the oldest extensive collection of songs attributed to Neidhart.
edited and translated by T. J. H. McCarthy
Paperback $34.95 / PDF $28.00
This new critical edition presents the Latin text and first English translation of Aribo's musical treatise, 'De musica' and 'Sententiae'. McCarthy addresses not only new approaches to the study of music history but newly discovered manuscripts of the treatise, paying careful attention to the diagrams that are integral to the coherence of the treatise.
edited and translated by Constant J. Mews, John N. Crossley, Catherine Jeffreys, Leigh McKinnon, and Carol J. Williams
Paperback $19.95 / PDF $19.95
'Ars musice,' composed in Paris during the late thirteenth century, reflects Johannes de Grocheio's awareness of the complexity of the task of describing music. As the editors note in their introduction... “The originality of Grocheio's treatise has attracted considerable scholarly interest...Through his treatise, Grocheio enables a modern reader to become aware of the complex auditory environment of that city in the late thirteenth century as well as of its intellectual vitality at a particularly vibrant moment in its history."
edited by Jacques Boogaart, translated by R. Barton Palmer and Jacques Booogaart, with art historical commentary by Domenic Leo
Paperback $39.95 / PDF $32.00
This long overdue new edition of Guillaume de Machaut’s twenty-three motets, the largest surviving collection of such works by a single composer in this period, is based on the most authoritative of the surviving manuscripts and is designed to meet the needs both of advanced scholars and musicians as well as students and performers. This user-friendly format indicates variants on the scores and has a layout that makes each work’s structure clearly visible; the lyrics, with full English translation, are presented at the end of each work.