For more than three decades Richard Charteris has researched European music sources and collections focusing particularly on late Renaissance England Germany and Italy. This group of essays many concerning previously unknown or unexplored works and materials covers the 16th and early to mid 17th centuries. The studies involve variously 'new' compositions music manuscripts and editions and documents that relate to figures such as the Italians Giovanni Gabrieli Claudio Monteverdi and Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder the Germans Hans Leo Hassler and Adam Gumpelzhaimer as well as the Englishmen John Coprario John Dowland John Jenkins Henry Lawes William Lawes Peter Philips and the French composer Marin Marais. In addition Charteris elucidates contemporary performance practice in relation to works by Gabrieli investigates printed music editions that originated from the Church of St Anna Augsburg and evaluates materials in collections inlcuding ones in Berlin Hamburg Kraków London Regensburg and Warsaw. |Giovanni Gabrieli and His Contemporaries Music Sources and Collections | History
