Cambridge University Press

Karen Desmond's excellent new book ... proposes a new way of thinking about the ars nova of fourteenth-century French music ... her account will prove an essential contribution to thinking about... — Revue de musicologie More…

An impressive series of practical investigations ... a revisionist work of great importance ... this account will become a classic of its genre — Musical Times More…

[The book is] alive to the extraordinary contradictions and inconsistencies which ran through the Western world's most intensely developed musical culture as it weathered the upheavals of Weimar... — The Times More…

Among the year's most stimulating reading material — The Observer More…

a rich and variegated picture of how instrumentalists created, functioned, and lived. Specific case studies of individual Renaissance instrumentalists and events serve to illustrate trends in... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

the present book by Jean-Paul C. Montagnier, the first devoted to a cappella Masses published in France in this period, is welcome not only in terms of the new factual information it imparts,... — Revue de musicologie More…