Tim Carter

Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter

This collection of reprinted essays starts from the author's doctoral research on Jacopo Peri and the rise of opera and solo song in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Florence. It extends to broader issues concerning music and patronage in the city as they affected individual composers, patrons and institutions, and thence to the commerce of music printing and the book trade. It concludes with an attempt to suggest a broader view of these various issues as they impact upon musical life in the 'provinces' in Tuscany. There is a great deal of new documentary and other information here, but the aim is also to expand methodological horizons so as to prompt new ways of thinking about music in its contexts.

Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence

Cambridge University Press

John Butt

A comprehensive study of European musical culture in the seventeenth century.

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

Fellow of King's College Cambridge Lecturer in Music Iain Fenlon

Nigel Fortune

Iain Fenlon

The seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were an exciting time in Italian music, and this collection of essays by leading European, British, and American musicologists seeks to consolidate the recent growth of interest in the field, with discussions of leading composers (including Monteverdi, Vivaldi, and Handel), theatrical and secular vocal music, and iconography.

Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter

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