Female Musicians and Performance Practice at the Courts of Parma and Ferrara, 1565-1589

"This website comprises the public pages of 'Female musicians at the courts of Ferrara and Parma, 1565-1589', an AHRB-funded collaboration between the ensemble Musica Secreta and musicologist Laurie Stras. The collaboration was formed in order to investigate performing practices at the Farnese and d'Este courts in the latter half of the sixteenth century. The project is generating transcriptions, performing scores and recordings of music associated with the two courts, made available to the wider musical community via this site. Scores on this site are published using Sibelius software and may be viewed and heard with the aid of the Scorch plug-in". (from project web site; please see for more details).