This book looks at the work of one of England's finest composers, William Lawes. It provides a contextual examination of music at the court of Charles I, a deta

First published in 1998, this volume comprises papers given at a conference on Lawes and his music held at Oxford in September 1995 to commemorate the 350th ann

The contributions to this Festschrift, honouring the distinguished Irish musicologist Harry White on his sixtieth birthday, have wide repercussions and span a b

Musical Creativity in Restoration England is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to creating music in late seventeenth-century England. Understa

This book re-examines early modern musical culture to suggest how music shapes meaning in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.