Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Foreign cultural models at the English royal court; International events and musical exchanges; Building a foreign musical establishment at the early Tudor court; Anglo-Continental relations in music manuscripts; English music theory and the international traditions; Conclusion; Appendices; References; Index.

About the Author

Theodor Dumitrescu received his doctorate in musicology at the University of Oxford in 2004 with a thesis on Anglo-Continental Musical Relations, c. 1485-1530. After holding a research fellowship at the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance (Tours), he was appointed researcher in musicology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 2006, where he directs the CMME Project for electronic publication of early music editions. His research interests cover many aspects of analysis, theory, and history in European music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Reviews

Shortlisted for the AMS Lewis Lockwood Award 2008. ’...Dumitrescu brings new documents, music manuscripts, and various other sources to bear, showing that the first Tudor monarchs played a major role in the importation of continental musical trends and the internationalization of English royal music. A chapter on English music theory is especially enlightening. A number of appendixes, music examples, and an extensive bibliography and index round out this valuable volume. Recommended.’ Choice ’This is a wide-ranging study, correcting the isolationist view of English culture of the period and relating music to the international court culture.’ Early Music Review ’... richly documented account... will serve as an excellent resource for anyone who wants to write more broadly-based study.’ NABMSA Newsletter ’... the most thorough book-length study of early Tudor court music in nearly half a century... Although the entire work is beautifully written and scrupulously researched, the chapters about foreign musical personnel at the early Tudor court and Anglo-Continental relations in music manuscripts are the most painstaking, original, and intriguing, giving extraordinary new insight into English music and musical practices at home and abroad in the years around 1500.’ Renaissance Quarterly ’This is an impressive work, epistemologically surefooted, drawing upon a commanding breadth of approaches and source materials.’ Early Music ’... a text all cultural historians will find provocative and of interest... a thorough, engaging book that offers a starting point for careful reconsideraton of many of the central themes of Renaissance musicology.’ Sixteenth Century Journal