Illustrations
Music examples
Abbreviations
Introduction
Contributors
I: The Music of the Past and the Modern Ear
1: Daniel Leech-Wilkinson: The good, the bad, and the boring
2: James Haar: Value Judgements in music of the Renaissance
3: Christopher Page: The English a cappella heresy
4: Tess Knighton: Going down on record
5: Thomas Binkley: The work is not the performance
6: Peter Phillips: Beyond authenticity
7: Philip Pickett: Hard-sell, scholarship, and silly titles
II: Aspects of Music and Society
8: Reinhard Strohm: Centre and periphery: mainstream and provincial
music
9: Barbara Haggh: The meeting of sacred ritual and secular piety:
endowments for music
10: Keith Falconer: Ritual reflections
11: Christopher Page: Musicus and cantor
12: Tess Knighton: A day in the life of Francisco de Peñalosa
13: Anthony Rooley: A portrait of Sir Henry Unton
14: Laura W. Macy: Women's history and early music
III: Questions of Form and Style
Genres: Vocal
15: Katherine Bergeron: Chant, or the politics of inscription
16: Ardis Butterfield: Monophonic song: quesions of category
17: Hendrik van der Werf: Early Western polyphony
18: Margaret Bent: The late-medieval motet
19: Philip T. Jackson: Mass polyphony
20: David Fallows: Polyphonic song
21: Margaret Mabbett: Genre and function: some thoughts on Italian
secular vocal music in the sixteenth century
Genres: Instrumental
22: Lewis Jones: Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century keyboard
music
23: Hopkinsons Smith: Plucked instruments: silver tones of a golden
age
24: Randall Cook: The medieval fiddle: reflections of a
performer
25: Crawford Young: On the trail of ensemble music in the fifteenth
century
26: Lorenz Welker: Wind ensembles in the Renaissance
Techniques of Composition:
27: Gareth Curtis: Musical design and the rise of the cyclic
Mass
28: Irena Cholij: Borrowed music: `Allez regrets' and the use of
pre-existent material
IV: Using the Evidence
29: Elizabeth C. Teviotdale: Music and pictures in the Middle
Ages
30: Iain Fenlon: Music in Italian Renaissance painting
31: Stevie Wishart: Echoes of the past in the present
32: Lewis Jones: Surviving instruments
33: Reinhard Strohm: Unwritten and written music
34: Frederick Hammond: Researching the past: archival studies
35: Michael Noone: A manuscript case-study
V: Pre-Performance Decisions
36: Bruno Turner: The editor: diplomat or dictator?
37: Liane Curtis: Mode
38: Rob C. Wegman: Musica ficta
39: Kenneth Kreitner: Renaissance pitch
40: Honey Meconi: Is underlay necessary?
41: Alison Wray: Restored pronunciation
42: Jan Nuchelmans: Finding the right context: where to perform
early music
VI: Performance Techniques
43: Paul Hillier: Framing the life of the words
44: John Potter: Reconstructing lost voices
45: Rogers Covey-Crump: Pythagoras at the forge: tuning in early
music
46: Richard Sherr: Tempo to 1500
47: Ephraim Segerman: Tempo and tactus after 1500
48: Bernard Thomas: Divisions in Renaissance music
49: Andrew Lawrence-King: `Perfect' instruments
Chronology
Glossary
Index
Tess Knighton is Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and the editor of the journal Early Music. David Fallows is Reader in Music at Manchester University.
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