Early Music History
Subtitle: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music (Early Music History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 23, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780521472821
Subjects: Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600); Music; General; Music / General; Instruction & Study - General; History & Criticism - General
First sentence: By praising rulers, whose magnificence formed a crucial part of the world order, Pierre de Ronsard and his French colleagues in the second half of the sixteenth century often depicted the world not as it was but as it ought to be.