A radical new approach to French Baroque organ music in which developments in musical style are coupled to performance practice.

This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.

Jean-Baptiste Lully is perhaps best known in the history of music as the founder of French opera. Although Italian-born himself, he created a form of opera so s

Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Euro

The twentieth-century revival of early music unfolded in two successive movements rooted respectively in nineteenth-century antiquarianism and in rediscovery of