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

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

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

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

Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history. A tribute to the work of Keith Wrigh