Mark Everist, Polyphonic Music in Thirteenth-century France: Aspects of Sources and Distribution. . University of Oxford, 1985.
Abstract:
The investigation of primary sources of thirteenth-century polyphony has been closely related to questions of the date and provenance of the surviving manuscripts. Previous studies have taken a single book and attempted to place it chronologically and topographically within the history of music of the thirteenth century. This thesis considers surviving material related to thirteenth-century polyphony and evaluates the patterns of production found there...
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