Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Transition to the Renaissance -- Development of Polyphony -- Guido d'Arezzo -- The Notre-Dame School -- Ars Nova -- Ars Antiqua -- Monophonic Secular Song -- The Early Renaissance -- The Court of Burgundy -- New Religious Musical Forms -- Secular Music -- The Franco-Flemish School -- Instrumental Music -- Musical Forms -- Toccata -- Solo and Ensemble Instruments -- Renaissance Vocal Music -- Italy -- England -- France -- Germany and Other Areas of Europe -- Chapter 2: Renaissance Musical Instruments -- Lute -- Other Stringed Instruments -- Theorbo -- Rebec -- Viol -- Percussion Instruments -- Organ -- Stringed Keyboard Instruments -- Clavichord -- Harpsichord -- Spinet -- Psaltery -- Virginal -- Assorted Wind Instruments -- Serpent -- Chapter 3: Early Renaissance Composers -- John Dunstable -- Guillaume Dufay -- Chanson -- Binchois -- Jean de Ockeghem -- Jakob Obrecht -- Josquin des Prez -- Counterpoint in the Renaissance -- Heinrich Isaac -- Loyset Compère -- Pierre de La Rue -- Jean Mouton -- Chapter 4: Later Renaissance Composers Active in Italy -- Jacques Arcadelt -- Frottole -- Philippe de Monte -- Orlando di Lasso -- Giaches de Wert -- Luca Marenzio -- Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa, conte di Conza -- Renaissance Music Printers -- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Life -- Music -- Andrea Gabrieli -- Giovanni Gabrieli -- Claudio Monteverdi -- The Gonzaga Court -- Three Decades in Venice -- Chapter 5: Later Renaissance Composers Active in England -- Robert Fayrfax -- John Taverner -- Christopher Tye -- Thomas Tallis -- Fitzwilliam Virginal Book -- William Byrd -- Life -- Legacy -- Thomas Morley -- John Dowland -- John Bull -- John Wilbye -- Thomas Campion -- Ayre -- Francis Pilkington -- Thomas Weelkes -- Robert Johnson -- Orlando Gibbons.

Chapter 6: Later Renaissance Composers Active in Other Countries -- Clément Janequin -- Claudin de Sermisy -- The Genevan Psalter -- Loys Bourgeois -- Claude Goudimel -- Claude Le Jeune -- Ludwig Senfl -- Hans Leo Hassler -- Lied -- Cristóbal de Morales -- Antonio de Cabezón -- Villancico -- Francisco Guerrero -- Adriaan Willaert -- Nicolas Gombert -- Jacobus Clemens -- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.