Article: A Correspondence of Renaissance Musicians.

The hundred-odd letters contained in this volume are the largest surviving Renaissance correspondence on musical matters. Isolated letters from or concerning fifteenth- and sixteenth-century musicians may be more interesting than any found here, in part because of their rarity; the letters of Orlando di Lasso to his ducal employers are more entertaining; those of Claudio Monteverdi are more personally revealing. But for sheer volume, for the number of individual points of interest raised, and for what they tell us in general about the musical culture of the first half of the Cinquecento the correspondence here under consideration is unrivalled.

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