Medieval & Renaissance (1000-1600)

Peter Philips (1561-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting musical, social, religious and political networks linking him with some of the key international players in these spheres. In this book, Philips’s life and music serve as a touc..

This volume presents a selection of scholarly studies of sacred and liturgical music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, published in the last twenty or so years. The nineteen reprinted articles are arranged by country and cover music from France, the Flemish Low Countries, Italy, Germany, Eng..

This collection of essays focuses on polyphonic settings of vernacular texts and examines their historical and stylistic contexts, their transmission in written and printed sources, questions of performance, and composers’ approaches to text setting. Essays have been selected to reflect the wide ran..

Senza Vestimenta reintegrates poetic and musical traditions in late medieval Italy through a fresh evaluation of more than 50 literary sources transmitting Trecento song texts. These manuscripts have been long noted by musicologists, but until now they have been used to bolster rather than to debunk..

The essays in this volume are concerned with song repertories and performance practice in 15th-century Europe. The first group of studies arises from the author's long-term fascination with the widely dispersed traces of English song and , in particular, with the most successful song by any English ..

This volume explores the means and motives for the distribution of music during the Renaissance. The selected essays discuss both the technical side of the production of sources as well as their roles in the society in which they were produced, and are accompanied by an introduction which places the..

Representing nearly thirty years of research by one of the leading scholars in the field, this series of in-depth studies examines selected aspects of the music of the great Spanish composer in the late Renaissance, Tomás Luis de Victoria. Presenting new insights into both the musical style and lan..

Synopsis of Vocal Musick by the unidentified A.B. was published in London in 1680 and appears to have only ever had one edition. Unlike other English theoretical writings of the period, the Synopsis derives many of its aspects from the Italian theoretical tradition. The treatise therefore forms an i..

This complete scholarly edition of the collection of manuscript choreographies from c.1565-c.1675 associated with the Inns of Court is the first full-length study of these sources to be published. It offers practical reconstructions of the dances and provides a selection of musical settings simply b..

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The carole was the principal social dance in France and England from c.1100 to c.1400 and was frequently mentioned in French and English medieval literature, but has been widely misunderstood by contributors in recent citations in dictionaries and reference books, both linguistic and musical. Dr Rob..

The carole was the principal social dance in France and England from c.1100 to c.1400 and was frequently mentioned in French and English medieval literature, but has been widely misunderstood by contributors in recent citations in dictionaries and reference books, both linguistic and musical. Dr Rob..