San Antonio College Library

This series places a full range of medieval and Renaissance musical instruments in historical context, demonstrating what the instruments look and sound like and how they are played. Includes performances.

This book is an introduction and guide to the most significant keyboard literature of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Covering music written for organ as well as stringed keyboard instruments, the book surveys the central keyboard repertory before Bach, exploring through representative works the styles, textures, genres, instruments, and performance practices that characterize the keyboard music of this period. Because national musical...