Giovanni Gabrieli and his contemporaries : music, sources and collections / Richard Charteris.

Essays previously published in various journals between 1975 - 2009 with corrections and addendum.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Newly discovered manuscript parts and annotations in a copy of Giovanni Gabrieli's Symphoniae sacrae (1615) -- Giovanni Gabrieli's Sacrae symphoniae (Venice, 1597) : some rediscovered partbooks with new evidence about performance practice -- A new keyboard work by Giovanni Gabrieli and the relevance ofits compositional technique -- Autographs of John Coprario -- Fuerunt mihi lacrymae : Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder or the younger? -- A rediscovered manuscript source with some previously unknown works by John Jenkins, William Lawes and Benjamin Rogers -- New motets by Hans Leo Hassler : indications of second thoughts -- A newly discovered songbook in Poland with works by Henry Lawes and his contemporaries -- An early-seventeenth-century collection of sacred vocal music and its Augsburg connections -- New connections between Eastern Europe and works by Philips, Dowland, Marais and others -- A neglected anthology of sacred vocal music dating from the sixteenth century.