Music books

volume of mostly anonymous Spanish music printed in Venice in 1556

Sanskrit musicological text

A tonary is a liturgical book in the Western Christian Church which lists by incipit various items of Gregorian chant according to the Gregorian mode (tonus) of their melodies within the eight-mode system. Tonaries often include Office antiphons, the mode of which determines the recitation formula for the accompanying text (the psalm tone if the antiphon is sung with a psalm, or canticle tone if the antiphon is sung with a canticle), but a tonary may also or instead list responsories or Mass chants not associated with formulaic recitation. Although some tonaries are stand-alone works, they wer

1998 book

book by Hector Berlioz

music for harpsichord by Rameau

book by François Couperin

book by Jean-Philippe Rameau

dancing manual containing the music and instructions for English country dances; first published in 1651 by John Playford

book by Thomas Morley

manuscript

thumb|upright=2.2|One opening (fol. 19v-20r) of the Chigi codex, showing the Kyrie of Ockeghem's [[Missa Ecce ancilla Domini. Cantus and tenor are on the left page, contratenor and bassus on right.]] A choirbook is a large format manuscript used by choirs in churches or cathedrals during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is large enough for the entire choir to read from one book and may contain either monophonic gregorian chant or polyphony, with voice parts laid out individually across an opening's facing pages.

book by Colin Larkin

music collection by Pachelbel

music anthology, the first printed collection of music for keyboard in England