Based on extensive documentary and archival research, Music in Renaissance Ferrara is a study of the rise of music at a vital center of Italian Renaissance culture, focusing on the patrons and musicians whose efforts gave Ferrara a primary role in European music during the fifteenth century. The successive rulers of the Italian city-state, members of the Este dynasty, brought to Ferrara some of the most important composers of the period, including Guillaume Dufay, Johannes Martini, Jacob Obrecht...

• Preface/ List of Illustrations/ List of Tables/ List of Music Examples/ Archival References/ Music Manuscripts/ Introduction/ PART ONE: MUSIC AT FERRARA IN THE EARLY FIFTEENTH CENTURY
• 1 Ferrara and the Trecento Background/
• 2 Ferrara under Niccolò III d'Este (1393-1429), Music in the Earlier Years of Niccolò III (1400-29), Music at the Cathedral: Bartolomeo da Bologna (1405-27)/ THE PERIOD OF LEONELLO D'ESTE (1429-50)/
• 3 Ferrara in the 1430s, The Council of Ferrara (1438)
• 4 Fera...