Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture, 1420–1600
Players of Function and Fantasy
- Author: Coelho, Victor
- Author: Polk, Keith
a rich and variegated picture of how instrumentalists created, functioned, and lived. Specific case studies of individual Renaissance instrumentalists and events serve to illustrate trends in... — More…
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Contents
- Prologue: the culture of Renaissance instrumental music
- 1. Renaissance instrumental music and its patrons
- 2. A source-based history of Renaissance instrumental music
- 3. The players
- 4. Instrumental music for celebration and ceremony
- 5. The instrumentalist's workshop: pedagogy, intabulation, and compositional process
- 6. Renaissance instruments: images and realities
- Epilogue.