The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music

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Iain Fenlon is Emeritus Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College Cambridge. He is the Editor of the journal Early Music History. His most recent books are The Ceremonial City: History Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice (2008) Piazza San Marco (2009) and (co-edited with Inga Groote) Heinrich Glarean's Books: The Intellectual World of a Sixteenth-Century Musical Humanist (Cambridge 2013). Richard Wistreich is Professor of Music and Director of Research at the Royal College of Music in London. His published work includes The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi (edited with John Whenham Cambridge 2007) and Warrior Courtier Singer: Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and the Performance of Identity in the Late Renaissance (2007). He has also had a long career as a professional singer specialising in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music during which he has made more than 100 commercial recordings appeared in opera solo recitals and as a member of several seminal ensembles of the early music revival.