Historiography

Improvisation and composition

Humanism

Music and other arts

Music in churches, courts, and cities

Religious devotion and liturgy

Theory and practice

Sources

Genres

Reception.

Part I. Historiography: Listening

1. Hearing Josquin hearing Busnoys / Michael Long

2. Religion and the senses in fifteenth-century Europe / Klaus Pietschmann

Terms and Concepts

3. The work concept / Laurenz Lütteken

4. The L'homme armé tradition - and the limits of musical borrowing / Jesse Rodin

Composer Studies

5. Guillaume Du Fay : evidence and interpretation / Alejandro Enrique Planchart

6. Jean d'Ockeghem / Lawrence F. Bernstein

7. Josquin and epistemology / Jesse Rodin

Part II. Improvisation and Composition

8. Oral composition in fifteenth-century music / Anna Maria Busse Berger

9. Improvisation as concept and musical practice in the fifteenth century / Philippe Canguilhem

10. How did Oswald von Wolkenstein make his contrafacta? / Anna Maria Busse Berger

11. Making a motet : Josquin's Ave Maria : virgo serena / John Milsom

12. The origins of pervasive imitation / Julie E. Cumming and Peter Schubert

Part III. Humanism

13. Humanism and music in Italy / James Hankins

14. Fifteenth-century humanism and music outside Italy / Reinhard Strohm

15. Poetic humanism and music in the fifteenth century / Leofranc Holford-Strevens

16. Canterino and Improvvisatore: oral poetry and performance / Blake Wilson

17. Liturgical Humanism: saints' offices from the Italian peninsula in the fifteenth century / Alison K. Frazier

Part IV. Music and Other Arts

18. Architecture and music in fifteenth-century Italy / Deborah Howard

19. Music and feasts in the fifteenth century / Anthony M. Cummings

20. French lyrics and songs for the New Year, c.1380-1420 / Yolanda Plumley

Part V. Music in Churches, Courts, and Cities

21. Musical institutions in the fifteenth century and their political contexts / Klaus Pietschmann

22. Music and musicians at the Burgundian court in the fifteenth century / David Fiala

23. The papal chapel in the late fifteenth century / Richard Sherr

24. The beneficial system and fifteenth-century polyphony / Pamela F. Starr

25. Professional women singers in the fifteenth century: a tale of two Annas / Bonnie J. Blackburn

26. Savonarola and the boys of Florence: songs and politics / Patrick Macey

Part VI. Religious Devotion and Liturgy

27. Music and ritual / M. Jennifer Bloxam

28. Marian devotion in the fifteenth century / David J. Rothenberg

29. Affective literature and sacred themes in fifteenth-century music / Anne Walters Robertson

Part VII. Theory and Practice

30. Measuring measurable music in the fifteenth century / Anne Stone

31. The transformative impulse / Emily Zazulia

32. Transformations in music theory and music treatises / Evan A. MacCarthy

Part VIII. Sources

33. Polyphonic sources, c.1400-50 / Margaret Bent

34. Polyphonic sources, c.1450-1500 / Thomas Schmidt-Beste

Part IX. Genres

35. The polyphonic mass in the fifteenth century / Andrew Kirkman

36. The fifteenth-century motet / Laurenz Lütteken

37. Fifteenth-century song / Nicole Schwindt

38. Instrumental music in the fifteenth century / Keith Polk

39. Sacred song in the fifteenth century: cantio, carol, lauda, Kirchenlied / Reinhard Strohm

40. Plainsong in the age of polyphony / Richard Sherr

Part X. Reception

41. The most popular songs of the fifteenth century / David Fallows

42. The nineteenth-century reception of fifteenth-century sacred music / Andrew Kirkman

43. The modern reception of the music of Jean d'Ockeghem / Lawrence F. Bernstein

44. Recordings of fifteenth-century music / Honey Meconi

45. Solidarity with the long-departed : fifteenth-century echoes in twentieth-century music / Richard Taruskin.