Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

David J. Smith is Head of Music at the University of Aberdeen, where he is also Master of Chapel and Ceremonial Music. He has published on early keyboard music, Scottish music manuscripts and Peter Philips, whose keyboard music he edited for Musica Britannica. He is a General Editor of the Ashgate Historical Keyboard Series. Rachelle Taylor leads an international performing and recording career, with a focus on Renaissance keyboard music. The subject of her PhD dissertation in musicology was the employment of English composers in the Elizabethan and early Jacobean secret services. She teaches music history and literature at McGill University and is music historian at Library and Archives Canada.