Thomas Morley, A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (London, 1597 edition) FACSIMILE
Thomas Morley, A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (London, 1771 edition) FACSIMILE
Heinrich Glarean, Dodecachordon (Basel, 1548) FACSIMILE
Johannes Tinctoris, Expositio manus [treatise on the Guidonian hand], in modern edition and translation, ed. Ronald Woodley. STOA
Johannes Tinctoris: Complete Theoretical Works [in digital edition] ed. Ronald Woodley, et al. Early Music Theory
Didactic Duos and Improvised Counterpoint (with Demonstrations)
Orlando di Lasso, Bicinia seu duarum vocum cantiones aliquot sacrae (Paris, 1577). Public Domain modern editions: Find It
Peter Schubert (McGill University) and Dawn Bailey demonstrate improvised canons at the 5th above, courtesy of McGill University Watch It
Peter Schubert (McGill University) and Dawn Bailey demonstrate improvised canons at the 5th below, courtesy of McGill University Watch It
Peter Schubert (McGill University) and Dawn Bailey and Christopher demonstrate improvised canons in three voices (part 1), courtesy of McGill University Watch It
Peter Schubert (McGill University) and Dawn Bailey Christopher demonstrate improvised canons in three voices (part 2), courtesy of McGill University Watch It
Peter Schubert (McGill University), with Rona Nadler (organ), Ellen Wieser, Meagan Zantingth, Ben Duinker, and Edmund Milly demonstrate improvised hymn setting in four voices (with organ verset), courtesy of McGill University Watch It
Peter Schubert (McGill University), with Ellen Wieser and Ben Duinker demonstrate improvised invertible counterpoint, courtesy of McGill University Youtube
Peter Schubert (McGill University), with Ellen Wieser and Ben Duinker demonstrate improvised canonic Kyrie, courtesy of McGill University Watch It
Peter Schubert (McGill University), with Meagan Zantingth, Ellen Wieser and Edmund Milly demonstrate improvised Agnus Dei in three-voice canon, courtesy of McGill University Watch It
Readings
Bent, Margaret. "'Resfacta' and 'Cantare Super Librum'." Journal of the American Musicological Society 36 (1983), 371-391. http://www.jstor.org/stable/831232
Blackburn, Bonnie J. “On Compositional Process in the Fifteenth Century.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 40 (1987), 210-284. http://www.jstor.org/stable/831517
Brown, Howard Mayer. “Emulation, Competition, and Homage: Imitation and Theories of Imitation in the Renaissance.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 35 (1982), 1-48. http://www.jstor.org/stable/831286
Forney, Kristine. "'Nymphes gayes en abry du Laurier': Music Instruction for the Bourgeois Woman." Musica Disciplina 49 (1995), 151-87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20532395
Mead, Sarah. "Renaissance Theory." In Jeffrey Kite-Powell, ed. A Performer's Guide to Renaissance Music. 2nd ed., pp. 342-73. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276762615
Mengozzi, Stefano. The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory : Guido of Arezzo between Myth and History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/465366337
Owens, Jessie Ann. Composers at work: The craft of musical composition, 1450-1600. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33047219
Perkins, Leeman. "The Conceptualization of Music in the Renaissance." In Music in the Age of the Renaissance, pp. 969-1057. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39335162
Schubert, Peter N. “Counterpoint Pedagogy in the Renaissance.” In The Cambridge history of Western music theory, 503-533. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45166705
Smith, Anne. "Lasso's Two-Part Fantasies as a Didactic Tool for Solmization." Journal of the Alamire Foundation 2 (2012), 238-305. http://www.brepolsonline.net/toc/jaf/4/2
Sternfeld, Frederick W. "Music in the Schools of the Reformation." Musica disciplina 2 (1948), 99-122. www.jstor.org/stable/20531762
*W. Murray, Russell, Susan Forscher Weiss, and Cynthia Cyrus, eds. Music education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/657643811
Wegman, Rob C. “From Maker to Composer: Improvisation and Musical Authorship in the Low Countries, 1450-1500.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 49 (1996), 409-479. http://www.jstor.org/stable/831769
Wright, Craig M. Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550. Cambridge Studies in Music. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/246807595