Offers a synopsis of Leon Battista Alberti's theories on the proportions of numbers and music. Link to further resources on the classics.
Offers facsimiles and images of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, one of the largest collections of solo songs from the Middle Ages.
Offers an explanation of Charlemagne's interest in church music, and his efforts to maintain a liturgy aligned with Rome.
Discusses construction, tuning, notation for the lute based on surviving manuscripts of the 16th century.
Resource for Gregorian chants research provides historical information and links to other related sites. Learn how to apply for a fellowship.
Explores the development of musical notation in Medieval music and focuses on the monophonic principles of Gregorian chant composition.
Provides a definition of the eight modes employed during the middle ages. Includes a medieval music glossary.
Analysis by Cynthia Cyrus offers a basic historical overview of the forms, styles, and functions of sacred and secular music in the Middle Ages.
Provides an introduction to the music of courtly romance and troubadours. Link to other resources on medieval and Renaissance music.
Provides a collection of selected copyright-free, authentic medieval tunes for which one can write new lyrics.
Analyses the plainchant, a monophonic unison chant, originally unaccompanied, of the Christian liturgies, and its distinctive modal idioms.
Analyses the earliest stages of polyphony and contemporaneous monophonic songs of the 12th century medieval repertoire.
Provides a definition of this form of polyphonic music employed from 1250 to 1750. Link to profiles of composers and other terms.
Details the various forms of Prosper chants, namely, the Indroit, the Gradual, the Alleluia, the Offertery, and the Communion chants.
Offers the contents of correspondence on the natural origins of the "Do, Re, Mi..." music scale.
Essay explores the beginnings of choir music with an investigation of the musical notation and theory of Medieval Gregorian chants.
Review an academic reckoning of Pythagorean scales and their importance in Gothic polyphony.
Offers a list of recordings available of polyphonic music and monophonic songs of the 12th century. Link to liner notes.