Table of Contents

List of figures

Series editor’s preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I Taverner and Gresham College

1 Biography of John Taverner

2 The founding of Gresham College

3 John Bull and the Gresham music professorship

4 Taverner and the evolution of the Gresham music professorship

5 Audiences and readers of the Gresham lectures

II Taverner’s music lectures

1 Overview and form of the lectures

2 Humanism and philology in the lectures

3 The Reformist critique of music

4 Evolving ideas of musical literacy

On the origin and progress of the art of music (English lectures)

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Lecture 6

Lecture 7

Lecture 8

Lecture 9

Appendix: Taverner’s Gresham College music lectures in Latin

Editorial note

Lecture 0 (inaugural lecture)

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Lecture 6

Lecture 7

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Joseph M. Ortiz is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he teaches Renaissance and comparative literature. He is the author of Broken Harmony: Shakespeare and the Politics of Music (2011) and the editor of Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism (2013). He has written several articles and chapters on Renaissance literature, Renaissance musical thought, and the reception of classical culture in Renaissance Europe.