1st Edition
Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries A Collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips’s 450th Anniversary
Biography
David J. Smith is Head of Music at the University of Aberdeen, where he is also Master of Chapel and Ceremonial Music. He has published on early keyboard music, Scottish music manuscripts and Peter Philips, whose keyboard music he edited for Musica Britannica. He is a General Editor of the Ashgate Historical Keyboard Series. Rachelle Taylor leads an international performing and recording career, with a focus on Renaissance keyboard music. The subject of her PhD dissertation in musicology was the employment of English composers in the Elizabethan and early Jacobean secret services. She teaches music history and literature at McGill University and is music historian at Library and Archives Canada.
'This is a fascinating ... tome'. Early Music Review ’The essays are largely built on new research, and provide both new insights and valuable background information. This book will be a valuable addition to the collections of specialists and music libraries.’ The Consort ’We gain a fuller understanding of composers and their music by viewing them in their historical context: this assertion has been central to musicological research for the past several decades, and it is the premise of this volume of essays. The contributors offer multiple perspectives on the relationships among early modern composers and musicians and the social, cultural, and religious milieux in which they lived and worked.' Sixteenth Century Journal XLV/4 (2014)
