In this groundbreaking new study, Kate van Orden examines noble education in the arts to show how music contributed to cultural and social transformation in ear

Examines noble education in the arts to show how music contributed to cultural and social transformation in early modern French society. Van Orden constructs a

What does it mean to author a piece of music? What transforms the performance scripts written down by musicians into authored books? In this fascinating cultura

Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to the twenty-first century The first part of this

A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a “priest of God,” a Copern