Cambridge University Press

In Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara, Laurie Stras has produced a highly accessible and important volume - thoroughly researched and elegantly written - that throws open the clouded... — Music and Letters More…

Plague and Music in the Renaissance does a fine job of presenting the pressures that plague put upon medical, theological, and civic understanding. It beautifully outlines the manner in which... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

The writing is clear, the scholarship impeccable. This is a valuable addition to the historical musicology literature — Choice More…