1st Edition
Magister Jacobus de Ispania, Author of the Speculum musicae
By Margaret Bent
Copyright 2015
232 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Speculum musicae of the early fourteenth century, with nearly half a million words, is by a long way the largest medieval treatise on music, and probably the most learned. Only the final two books are about music as commonly understood: the other five invite further work by students of scholastic philosophy, theology and mathematics. For nearly a century, its author has been known as Jacques... Read more
Magister Jacobus de Ispania, Author of the Speculum musicae
Biography
Margaret Bent CBE FBA is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Before returning to England, she taught at Brandeis and Princeton universities and served as President of the American Musicological Society. She has published widely on English, French and Italian music of the 14th and 15th centuries.
