Renaissance Music

The many complex and difficult issues relating to the performance of music from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries form the subject of this volume of scholarly research articles, originally published between 1946 and 2009. The issues covered range from the voices-and-instruments debate of the 1980s to the performance of sixteenth-century sacred

We know what, say, a Josquin mass looks likebut what did it sound like? This is a much more complex and difficult question than it may seem. Kenneth Kreitner has assembled twenty articles, published between 1946 and 2009, by scholars exploring the performance of music from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The collection includes works by David Fallows, Howard Mayer Brown, Christopher Page, Margaret Bent, and others covering the voices-and-instruments debate of the 1980s, the performance of sixteenth-century sacred and secular music, the role of instrumental ensembles, and problems of pitch standards and musica ficta. Together the papers form not just a comprehensive introduction to the issues of renaissance performance practice, but a compendium of clear thinking and elegant writing about a perpetually intriguing period of music history.

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