附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Renaissance humanism and music / Gary Tomlinson -- The concept of the Renaissance /James Haar -- The concept of the Baroque / Tim Carter -- Italy, i: 1520-1560 / Giulio Ongaro -- Italy, ii: 1560-1600 / Noel O'Regan -- Italy, iii: 1600-1640 / Tim Carter -- Music for the mass / Allan W. Atlas -- The motet / Anthony Cummings -- France, i: 1520-1560 / Richard Freedman -- France, ii: 1560-1600 / Jeanice Brooks -- France, iii: 1600-1640 /David Tunley -- Chanson and air / Kate van Orden -- Madrigal / James Haar -- The Netherlands, 1520-1640 / Kritine K. Forney -- Music, print, and society in sixteenth-century Europe / Iain Fenlon -- Concepts and developments in music theory / Karol Berger -- Germany and Central Europe, i: 1520-1600 / David Crook -- The Reformation and music / Robin A. Leaver -- Renewal, reform, and reaction in Catholic music / Craig Monson -- Spain, i: 1530-1600 / Todd M. Borgerding and Louise K. Stein -- Spain, ii: 1600-1640 / Louise K. Stein -- Early opera: the initial phase / Giuseppe Gerbino and Iain Fenlon -- England, i: 1485-1600 / Roger Bray -- England, ii: 1603-1642 / Jonathan P. Wainwright -- Instrumental music / Victor Coelho and Keith Polk.
摘要:Palestrina, Byrd, Victoria, Monteverdi and Schütz were just some of the great names of the Golden Age of Polyphony. Here is a comprehensive overview of the period, covering musical culture in individual European countries, genre studies and essays on intellectual and cultural developments.