Mediaeval Music: An Historical Sketch (2nd ed.) - Robert Charles Hope (1899)
Publisher: Elliot Stock 1899 | 182 Pages | ISBN: none | PDF | 17.1 MB

"This Second edition has been thoroughlt revies, rearranged in form, and several new features have been added.

In compiling this historical sketch many and great difficultires have had to be coped with; to solve them the best authorities have been appealed to, and, where such have failed to supply the particular information sought for, that opinion which on mature consideration appeared most feasible has been given.

The Supplementary chapter on Homonic and Monadie Music has been appended with the object only of giving in as clear and consise a manner as possible a general outline of the developments to which the scienece of harmony had attained from the end of the siteenth and beginning of the seventeenth to the nineteenth century..."