Part I: Viewing the evidence. A sight-reading vielle player from the thirteenth century / John Haines -- The story of O : a variant in the Becket office / Andrew Hughes -- Rubrics in Trent 93 and Trent 90 : a performer's guide? / Brian E. Power -- The ghost of perfection : some thoughts on the Munich partbooks / Honey Meconi -- Reading the signs : notation and performance in the French popular song repertory / Maureen Epp -- Vincenzo Galilei's re-vision of Renaissance tuning : trading on nature and art / Leslie Korrick. -- Part II: Reconsidering contexts. Possible origins of the Lo dances and their performance implications / Randall Rosenfeld -- Chamber musicians, singers and performance practices in the early fifteenth century / Keith Polk -- A measure of moral virtue : women, dancing and public performance in fifteenth-century Italy / Jennifer Nevile -- Irregular and asymmetric galliards : the case of Salamone Rossi / Barbara Sparti -- Limitations of meaning : text and context in Monteverdi's Baci soavi e cari (1587) / Robert Toft -- Hooked on ecstasy : performance 'practice' and the reception of the music of Hildegard of Bingen / Jennifer Bain -- Publications of Timothy J. McGee