1st Edition
Consort Suites and Dance Music by Town Musicians in German-Speaking Europe, 1648–1700 PBD
List of figures
List of tables
List of examples
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements and preface
1 The towns: governance, patronage and status
2 Dances and collections
3 The aftermath of war
4 Concepts of careful organisation
5 A time of decline
6 Leipzig
7 Hamburg
8 Keyboard suites by town composers
9 Note blackening and mensural notation
Appendix
Bibliography
Biography
Michael Robertson completed his PhD in 2004. In addition to working as a teacher, harpsichordist and organist, he writes about seventeenth-century music and has a fruitful music-editing partnership with a leading German publisher of early music. He is a visiting research fellow at the University of Leeds.
"Michael Robertson marshals the information with admirable clarity, drawing attention to neglected treasures, and showing that there is always something to learn, even from incomplete sources." - Richard Carter, Viola Da Gamba Society Journal
"This study is based on meticulous research... and breaks new ground. [...] The volume is copiously illustrated with musical examples. For specialists and music library collections, this study will be a valuable reference tool." - Robert Manning, The Consort Early Music Journal, vol.73, Summer 2017
