Description: With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty essays comment on the social, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period to offer fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and performance practices of the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Review Quotes: "Fallows and Knighton have gone a significant distance towards breaking down the barriers that separate the several different early music constituencies. Collecting such a diverse set of essays was a brave, interesting, and largely successful project."--Timothy J. McGee, "Notes