Arnold, Denis. The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty essays comment on the social, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period to offer fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and performance practices of the medieval and Renaissance periods. David Fallows and Tess Knighton, scholars and critics in the field of medieval and Renaissance music, invited a number of international researchers and performers to contribute short essays on some of the most intriguing aspects of the subject. The aim was not so much a comprehensive reference book, although the Glossary gives brief definitions of terms and composer biographies, nor a strictly chronological survey, though the Chronology provides an overview of the main developments of the period especially in the Mass, for these basic tools are already …show more content…
Lockwood discusses the three famous poets – Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso – which is used in Ferrara as inspirations when writing the Masses. Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae was one of the famous masses that was produced at this era in the Italian Renaissance – composed by Josquin De Prez, in the setting of the Ordinary of the Mass and dedicated to the Duke. Because of this, this version of the mass was one of the most famous composed mass with the source material for the mass, the canctus firmus, and a technique called sogetto cavato. The mass was the number one written music at that era thus was born amazing composers in