Ross W. Duffin is Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University. An international lecturer, he is widely known as the lively, informative host of National Public Radio's "Micrologus: Exploring the World of Early Music."

Part 1: Repertoire

I. Sacred

1. Chant

2. Organum

3. Motet & Cantilena

4. Polyphonic Mass Ordinary

II. Non-Liturgical Monophony

5. Introduction

6. Latin

7. Occitan

8. French

9. Iberian

10. Sephardic

11. Italian

12. German

13. English

III. Lyric Forms post 1300

14. French Ars Nova

15. Italian Ars Nova

16. Ars Subtilior

17. Early Du Fay

IV. Drama

18. Litugical

19. Vernacular

Part 2: Voices & Instruments

V. The Voice in the Middle Ages

20. Poetics as Technique

VI. Bowed Strings

21a. Vielle before 1300

21b. Vielle after 1300

22. Rebec

23. Symphonia

VII. Plucked Strings

24a. Harp

24b. Imagining the Early Medieval Harp

24c. Playing the Late Medieval Harp

25. Lute, Gittern, & Citole

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26. Flutes

27. Reeds & Brass

28. Bagpipe

IX. Keyboard & Related Types

29. Organ

30. String Keyboards

31. Psaltery & Dulcimer

X. Percussion

32. Percussion

XI. Instrumental Usage

33. Untexted Repertoire

34. Improvisation & Accompaniment before 1300

35. Ornamentation & Improvisation after 1300

Part 3: Theory & Practice

XII. Essential Theory for Performers

36. The Gamut, Solmization & Modes

37. Musica ficta

38. Proportion

39. Notation & Editions

40. Tuning

Select Discography

Select Bibliography

Index