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Illustrations | |
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Music examples | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Introduction | |
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Contributors | |
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The Music of the Past and the Modern Ear | |
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The good, the bad, and the boring | |
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Value Judgements in music of the Renaissance | |
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The English a cappella heresy | |
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Going down on record | |
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The work is not the performance | |
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Beyond authenticity | |
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Hard-sell, scholarship, and silly titles | |
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Aspects of Music and Society | |
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Centre and periphery: mainstream and provincial music | |
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The meeting of sacred ritual and secular piety: endowments for music | |
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Ritual reflections | |
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Musicus and cantor | |
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A day in the life of Francisco de Pe�alosa | |
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A portrait of Sir Henry Unton | |
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Women's history and early music | |
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Questions of Form and StyleGenres: Vocal | |
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Chant, or the politics of inscription | |
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Monophonic song: quesions of category | |
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Early Western polyphony | |
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The late-medieval motet | |
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Mass polyphony | |
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Polyphonic song | |
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Genre and function: some thoughts on Italian secular vocal music in the sixteenth century Genres: Instrumental | |
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Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century keyboard music | |
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Plucked instruments: silver tones of a golden age | |
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The medieval fiddle: reflections of a performer | |
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On the trail of ensemble music in the fifteenth century | |
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Wind ensembles in the RenaissanceTechniques of Composition | |
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Musical design and the rise of the cyclic Mass | |
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Borrowed music: `Allez regrets' and the use of pre-existent material | |
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Using the Evidence | |
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Music and pictures in the Middle Ages | |
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Music in Italian Renaissance painting | |
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Echoes of the past in the present | |
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Surviving instruments | |
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Unwritten and written music | |
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Researching the past: archival studies | |
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A manuscript case-study | |
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Pre-Performance Decisions | |
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The editor: diplomat or dictator? | |
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Mode | |
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Musica ficta | |
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Renaissance pitch | |
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Is underlay necessary? | |
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Restored pronunciation | |
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Finding the right context: where to perform early music | |
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Performance Techniques | |
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Framing the life of the words | |
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Reconstructing lost voices | |
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Pythagoras at the forge: tuning in early music | |
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Tempo to 1500 | |
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Tempo and tactus after 1500 | |
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Divisions in Renaissance music | |
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`Perfect' instruments | |
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Chronology | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |