Songs and Musicians in the Fifteenth Century

Contents: English song repertories of the mid-fifteenth century; Robertus de Anglia and the Oporto song collection; Review of Julia Boffey: Manuscripts of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the later Middle Ages; Dunstable, Bedyngham and O rosa bella; The contenance angloise: English influence on continental composers of the fifteenth century; French as a courtly language in fifteenth-century Italy: the musical evidence; A glimpse of the lost years: Spanish polyphonic song, 1450-70; Polyphonic song in the Florence of Lorenzo's youth, ossia: the provenance of the manuscript Berlin 78.C.28: Naples or Florence?; Prenez sur moy: Okeghem's tonal pun; Texting in the chansonnier of Jean de Montchenu; Specific information on the ensembles for composed polyphony, 1400-1474; The performing ensembles in Josquin's sacred music; 15th-century tablatures for plucked instruments: a summary, a revision and a suggestion; Embellishment and Urtext in the fifteenth-century song repertories; Additions and Corrections; Index of names and texts; Index of manuscripts.