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Lockwood's Music in Renaissance Ferrara is one of the foundational studies of music as a part of courtly culture in the Renaissance--and of the surprisingly powerful role of the Este court in Ferrara in the development of musical style and institutions in the period. -Prof. Anthony Newcomb, University of California, Berkeley Lewis Lockwood's magisterial study of music in 15th-century Ferrara was hailed as a classic as soon as it appeared. The winner of two best-book-of-the-year prizes (from both musicological and historical societies), it was in 1984 a pathbreaking historical study, a book on the music of a city and its ducal court. In the intervening generation, as studies of music and culture in Renaissance Italy have proliferated, the luster of Lockwood's achievement has only grown. Astonishing for the wealth of archival data and for Lockwood's characteristic interpretive virtuosity, Music in Renaissance Ferrara remains a stellar example of how to interweave history and the

Lockwood's Music in Renaissance Ferrara is one of the foundational studies of music as a part of courtly culture in the Renaissanc? * and of the surprisingly powerful role of the Este court in Ferrara in the development of musical style and institutions in the period. *

<br> Lockwood's Music in Renaissance Ferrara is one of the foundational studies of music as a part of courtly culture in the Renaissance--and of the surprisingly powerful role of the Este court in Ferrara in the development of musical style and institutions in the period. -Prof. Anthony Newcomb, University of California, Berkeley<br> Lewis Lockwood's magisterial study of music in 15th-century Ferrara was hailed as a classic as soon as it appeared. The winner of two best-book-of-the-year prizes (from both musicological and historical societies), it was in 1984 a pathbreaking historical study, a book on the music of a city and its ducal court. In the intervening generation, as studies of music and culture in Renaissance Italy have proliferated, the luster of Lockwood's achievement has only grown. Astonishing for the wealth of archival data and for Lockwood's characteristic interpretive virtuosity, Music in Renaissance Ferrara remains a stellar example of how to interweave history and the

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Lewis Lockwood is the Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music at Harvard University (Emeritus). He is the 2008 recipient of the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America for his work in Renaissance Studies.

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