Music and musicians at the Florentine monastery of Santa Trinita, 1360-63 ; Una nuova fonte dell'Ars Nova Italiana: Il codice di San Lorenzo, 2211 ; Music and musicians at Santa Maria del Fiore in the early Quattrocento ; The singers of San Giovanni in Florence during the 15th century ; Lorenzo the Magnificent and music ; Sacred music in Florence in Savonarola's time ; Heinrich Isaac in Florence : new and unpublished documents ; Some neglected composers in the Florentine chapels, ca. 1475-1525 ; Alessandro Coppini and Bartolomeo degli Organi - two Florentine composers of the Renaissance.
Sets the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in the later 15th century and the emergence in the early 16th century of a new Florentine school of composers. This work examines the effect of Medici patronage and the impact of Savonarola, and also the careers of individual composers such as Heinrich Isaac