By limiting its scope to the 120 years that witnessed perhaps the most dramatic expansion of our musical heritage, this book responds, in the 1990s, to the tremendous increase in specialized research and public awareness of that period. It is the most comprehensive survey since Gustave Reese wrote his Music in the Renaissance in 1954. The author presents fresh views in each chapter, discussing dozens of musical examples, adducing well-known and previously unknown documents, and referring to and evaluating the most recent scholarship in the field. The issues discussed include the impact of the Great Schism on music, a reevaluation of English influence in Europe, the "invention" of the musical "masterwork" in the 1450s and the "encounter of music and Renaissance" in late fifteenth-century Italy and Spain.
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