Podcast

How to Listen for Angels in a Late Medieval Painting by Katherine Spencer 

Painting of The Coronation of the Virgin Mary
Artist, Unknown
Late 1400s Iberia
Owned by Keith Puddy, London

Bibliography

Books

Buonanni, Filippo, Frank Ll. (Frank Llewelyn) Harrison, Joan Rimmer, and Filippo Buonanni. Antique Musical Instruments and Their Players: 152 Plates from Bonanni’s 18th Century “Gabinetto Armonico”. New York: Dover Publications, 1964. 

Clemenicic, René.Old Musical Instruments. Translated by David. Hermges. London: Octopus Books, 1975. 

Duffin, Ross W., ed. A Performer’s Guide to Medieval Music. Bloomington; Indiana University Press, 2000.

Elders, Willem,.Symbolic Scores, Studies in the Music of the Renaissance. The Conception of Musical Celestis and Musical Composition; Leiden. New York. Köln, 1984.

Gábry, György. Old Musical Instruments, Hungary: Corvina Press, 1969. 

Gill, Meredith J. Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. England: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Guido, Massimilliano. Studies in Historical Improvisation from Cantare Super Librum to Partimento. Abingdon, Oxon:; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. 

Marshall, Peter and Walsham, Alexandra, eds. Angels in the Early Modern World. Migrations of angels in the early modern World. England: Cambridge University Press. 2006. 

McGee, Timothy J. (Timothy James). Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Kalamazoo, Mich: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2003. 
(Still to receive a copy) 

Kite-Powell, Jeffery T., ed. A Performers Guide to Renaissance Music. New York: Schirmer Books, an imprint of MacMillan Publishing Company, 1994. 

Kuijken, Barthold. The Notation Is Not the Music : Reflections on Early Music Practice and Performance. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.

Bryne, James Steven. ed., Raymond, Joad. Conversations with Angels. Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700. Angels and the Physics of Place in the Early Fourteenth Century. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 2011. 

Slim, H Colin. Painting Music in the Sixteenth Century. Essays in Iconography. Aldershot Brookfield: Variorum Collected Studies Series, St Edmundsbury Press, 2002. 

Thomson, John Mansfield, and Anthony Rowland-Jones, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder. 1st ed. Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Tippett, Michael. Music of Angels: Essays and Sketchbooks of Michael Tippett. Edited by Meirion Bowen. London: Eulenburg Books, 1980. 

Whitwell, David. A Concise History of the Wind Band. Northridge, Calif. (Box 513, Northridge 91328): Winds, 1985. 

Williamson, Beth., eds Schuiling, Floris and Payne, Emily. The work of Notation in the Visual Culture of Medieval devotion. Material Cultures of Musical Notation: New Perspectives on Musical Inscription, 98-108. Music and Material Culture. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. 

Articles

Salvador-González, José Maria.The Iconographic Type of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Renaissance Italian Painting in the light of the Medieval Theology.” Medieval Christian Religion and Art, 13(12), 1145; (2022). 
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/12/1145

Zerańska-Kominek, Slowomira. “Bird-Like Angels Making Music in Mary’s Garden: Gentile Da Fabriano’s Madonna and Child with Saints.” Music in Art 37, no. 1/2(2012): 177-90. 

Audio 

Christopher’s, Harry, Walter Lambe, John Plummer, and Richard Davy. “The Voices of Angels: music from the Eton Choirbook Volume V.” England: Collins Classics/Lambourne Productions, 1995.  

Gawain, Hewitt. Field recording in Ancient Woodland in Croydon, London UK.