This is the first in-depth study in any language exploring the vast cultural range of instrumental music during the Renaissance.

This Companion covers many diverse aspects of brass instruments and in such detail. It provides an overview of the history of brass instruments, and their techn

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-s

The intricacies and challenges of musical performance have recently attracted the attention of writers and scholars to a greater extent than ever before. Resear

Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both special