1: The historical perspective
Music in the historical renaissance
The Christian church as patron of music
Music at the secular courts
Music in the urban context
The musical sources
2: The fifteenth century: the consolidation of genres and styles
The Contenance Angloise: English music at home and abroad
French secular music of the fifteenth century
The Motet in the fifteenth century
Liturgical polyphony for office and mass
Liturgical polyphony for the mass
Secular polyphony on the Italian peninsula
Sacred polyphony in Italy
Polyphony in Germany: indigenous traditions
Polyphony on the Iberian peninsula
3: The sixteenth century: the established genres and stylistic change
The Motet as genre and compositional type
Liturgical polyphony for the office
Liturgical polyphony for the mass
Secular polyphony in France
The madrigal
Songs and madrigals in England
Music of the Protestant reformation: Germany, Switzerland, France, Holland, and England
Performance practice and instrumental music
Instrumental repertories: the sources
The instrumental genres
The final synthesis
The conceptualization of music in the renaissance.