Product Description: A conference at Isham Memorial Library, Sept. 13-14, 1961. Contributions include The Genesis of a Style: the Parisian Chanson, 1500-1530 (Brown); From Frottola to Madrigal: the Changing Pattern of Secular Italian Vocal Music (Rubsamen); and Les Gouts Reunis, or the World of the Madrigal and the Chanson Confronted (Heartz); with 48 musical examples...read more

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Product Description: As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades. Collected here for the first time are representative pieces from those years, covering diverse themes of continuing interest to him and his readers: music in Renaissance culture, problems of theory as well as the Italian madrigal in the sixteenth century, the figures of Antonfrancesco Doni and Giovanthomaso Cimello, and the nineteenth century's views of early music...read more