Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music

With contributors 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 perfomance contexts of the music and musicians of the period, offering fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and perfomance practices. Among the many distinguished contributors are Margaret Bent, Katherine Bergeron, Thomas Binkley, Roger Covey-Crump, Ian Fenlon, James Haar, Andrew Lawrence-King, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Christopher Page, Peter Phillips, Philip Pickett, John Potter, Anthony Rooley, Reinhard Strohm, and Rob Wegman.