John Caldwell is the author of Editing Early Music (OUP, 1985), co-editor of The Well Enchanting Skill: Music, Poetry, and Drama in the Culture of the Renaissance(OUP, 1990), series editor for OUP's Musica de Camera series, editor of John Stanley: Complete Works for Flute and Basso Continuo: Six Concertos (OUP 1974-78 and 1987), and editor of William Boyce: Ten Voluntaries for the Organ or Harpsichord (OUP, 1972)

• Plates; Tables; Abbreviations; Author's note; From the beginnings to the middle of the thirteenth century; The later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; The age of power and Dunstable; The later fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; The period of the reformation; The Elizabethan and Jacobean period: music for the church; Secular vocal music, 1575 - 1625; Instrumental music, 1575 - 1625: musical life and thought; Charles I, the commonwealth, and the restoration; Music under the later Stuarts; Bibliography; Indexes

His commentary is almost seamless

John Caldwell is the author of Editing Early Music (OUP, 1985), co-editor of The Well Enchanting Skill: Music, Poetry, and Drama in the Culture of the Renaissance(OUP, 1990), series editor for OUP's Musica de Camera series, editor of John Stanley: Complete Works for Flute and Basso Continuo: Six Concertos (OUP 1974-78 and 1987), and editor of William Boyce: Ten Voluntaries for the Organ or Harpsichord (OUP, 1972)

• Plates; Tables; Abbreviations; Author's note; From the beginnings to the middle of the thirteenth century; The later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; The age of power and Dunstable; The later fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; The period of the reformation; The Elizabethan and Jacobean period: music for the church; Secular vocal music, 1575 - 1625; Instrumental music, 1575 - 1625: musical life and thought; Charles I, the commonwealth, and the restoration; Music under the later Stuarts; Bibliography; Indexes

His commentary is almost seamless

John Caldwell is the author of Editing Early Music (OUP, 1985), co-editor of The Well Enchanting Skill: Music, Poetry, and Drama in the Culture of the Renaissance(OUP, 1990), series editor for OUP's Musica de Camera series, editor of John Stanley: Complete Works for Flute and Basso Continuo: Six Concertos (OUP 1974-78 and 1987), and editor of William Boyce: Ten Voluntaries for the Organ or Harpsichord (OUP, 1972)

• Plates; Tables; Abbreviations; Author's note; From the beginnings to the middle of the thirteenth century; The later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; The age of power and Dunstable; The later fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; The period of the reformation; The Elizabethan and Jacobean period: music for the church; Secular vocal music, 1575 - 1625; Instrumental music, 1575 - 1625: musical life and thought; Charles I, the commonwealth, and the restoration; Music under the later Stuarts; Bibliography; Indexes

His commentary is almost seamless