"Songs of the Dove and the Nightingale: Sacred and Secular Music c.900-c.1600," Edited by Greta Mary Hair and Robyn E. Smith

Reviews a collection of papers by leading early music scholars on repertories spanning the period from the earliest surviving plainchant sources to the late Renaissance (Currency Press, 1994, 278p). Notes that the wide range of subject matter treated in this volume is the result of the papers having originated at the Symposium of the International Musicological Society held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1988. Concludes that the editors are successful in bringing together papers displaying a range of often disparate approaches and subjects into a coherent and very readable volume.