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By Elizabeth Baldwin, with David Mills. (Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series, 29.) Kalamazoo, MI: The Medieval Institute/ Western Michigan University, 2002. [xii, 287 p. ISBN 1-58044-040-1. $30.] Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index.
Paid pipers and, to a much lesser extent, called tunes feature prominently in this focused contextual study of the musical life of a provincial English town and county before the civil wars. But the musical world illuminated here by Elizabeth Baldwin displays a striking variety that quickly disabuses the reader's expectations of an orderly world of client-patron contracts, or of consensus of conformity. In Baldwin's ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Paying the Piper: Music in Pre-1642 Cheshire.(Book Review)