The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music

Iain Fenlon, Richard Wistreich

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780521195942
• eBook ISBN: 9781108630887
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, it considers music as something primarily experienced by people in their daily lives, whether as musicians or listeners, and as something that happened in particular locations, and different intellectual and ideological contexts, rather than as a story of genres, individual counties, and composers and their works. Second, by constraining discussion within the limits of a 100-year timespan, the music culture of the sixteenth century is freed from its conventional (and tenuous) absorption within the abstraction of 'the Renaissance', and is understood in terms of recent developments in the broader narrative of this turbulent period of European history. Both an original take on a well-known period in early music and a key work of reference for scholars, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of music.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Maps and Figures
• Notes on the Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Maps
• Introduction
• Part I Confessions, Identities, and Rhetorics of Power
• Part II Culture, Place, and Practice
• Part III Institutions, Ideas, and the Order of Nature
• Index