Music in the Middle Ages: A Reference Guide

There are quite a few resources available that discuss the music of the Middle Ages, which is a very specialized and complex area of study, in an introductory and general style. This book happens to be one of those, and the author is quite clear that this book is for a general audience that is interested in music and its development within the years 1000‐1450 CE. It is not meant to be scholarly, nor does it deal with music of this time period in Byzantium or Islam.

For a book of 200 pages, the author does a tremendous job of...