Comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey of English popular music during the early modern period. Accompanied by specially commissioned recordings.

English music studies often apply rigid classifications to musical materials, their uses, their consumers, and performers. The contributors to this volume argue

This book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.

Printed Musical Propaganda in Early Modern England reveals how consistently music, in theory and practice, was used as propaganda in a variety of printed genres

Both from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Auster