Reinhard Strohm, D.Phil., TU Berlin 1971, co-editor, Richard-Wagner Gesamtausgabe, 1970-1982; Lecturer in Music, King's College, University of London, 1975-1983; Professor of Music History, Yale University, 1983-1990; Reader, then Professor of Historical Musicology, King's College London, 1990-1996; Heather Professor of Music, Oxford University, 1996-Bonnie Jean Blackburn, D.Phil, University of Chicago; American musicologist who has studied with Edward Lowinsky and Howard Mayer Brown; Lecturer at the School of Music, Northwestern University; Visiting faculty member at both the University of Chicago, 1986, and SUNY, Buffalo, 1989-90; moved to Oxford in 1991and became a freelance editor; general editor of the series Monuments of Renaissance Music.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES ; ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; ITALY ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

... this challenging, informative, stimulating, and strangely satisfying volume.

Reinhard Strohm, D.Phil., TU Berlin 1971, co-editor, Richard-Wagner Gesamtausgabe, 1970-1982; Lecturer in Music, King's College, University of London, 1975-1983; Professor of Music History, Yale University, 1983-1990; Reader, then Professor of Historical Musicology, King's College London, 1990-1996; Heather Professor of Music, Oxford University, 1996-Bonnie Jean Blackburn, D.Phil, University of Chicago; American musicologist who has studied with Edward Lowinsky and Howard Mayer Brown; Lecturer at the School of Music, Northwestern University; Visiting faculty member at both the University of Chicago, 1986, and SUNY, Buffalo, 1989-90; moved to Oxford in 1991and became a freelance editor; general editor of the series Monuments of Renaissance Music.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES ; ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; ITALY ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

... this challenging, informative, stimulating, and strangely satisfying volume.

Reinhard Strohm, D.Phil., TU Berlin 1971, co-editor, Richard-Wagner Gesamtausgabe, 1970-1982; Lecturer in Music, King's College, University of London, 1975-1983; Professor of Music History, Yale University, 1983-1990; Reader, then Professor of Historical Musicology, King's College London, 1990-1996; Heather Professor of Music, Oxford University, 1996-Bonnie Jean Blackburn, D.Phil, University of Chicago; American musicologist who has studied with Edward Lowinsky and Howard Mayer Brown; Lecturer at the School of Music, Northwestern University; Visiting faculty member at both the University of Chicago, 1986, and SUNY, Buffalo, 1989-90; moved to Oxford in 1991and became a freelance editor; general editor of the series Monuments of Renaissance Music.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES ; ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; ITALY ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

... this challenging, informative, stimulating, and strangely satisfying volume.