Series: A Library of Essays on Renaissance Music

This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate brilliantly the complexity of European cultural history in the Renaissance. On the one hand, scholars of this period were inspired by classical narratives on the sublime effects of music and, on the other hand, were affected by the profound religious upheavals which destroyed the unity of Western Christianity and, in so...

Secular Renaissance Music explores the secular music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, showcasing an extraordinarily wide range of works and practices. This period includes courtly love songs, music for civic festivities, instrumental music, entertainments provided by minstrels, and the unwritten traditions of solo singing, among much else. This collection of essays delves into many of these practices with a...