Renaissance Instrumental Music: Topics & Organization

1.  Why the increase?

• texture & timbre of Renaissance music itself
• instrument building:  novelties
• general secularism:  music making at home

2.  Instruments & Repertory

• least productive; convenient
• little specificity of instrumentation
• non-idiomatic generic music

3.  Tutors & Performance Practice

• primary sources:  "how to" books

4.  National Considerations

• must be used, at least as an adjunct
• Italians:  lute & keyboard
• French:  dance

5.  Compositional Procedure

• types
• cuts across

6.  Composer

• interesting, but never done, except at doctoral level
• some portions of Reese