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This is the first comprehensive history of the Wheatstone English concertina and its music, players, and audiences in Victorian England, when the instrument was immensely popular. Illustrated with music examples throughout, the book features a unique appendix containing five pieces written specially for the instrument by the composers of the day.

This book deals with various aspects of musical life at the Aragonese court of Naples, from its establishment in 1442 to its demise in the opening years of the sixteenth century. An opening chapter gives a general historical-cultural background of the court. The author then discusses the royal chapel and its most important members, as well as other important musicians who were in Naples but who had no known ties with the court in an official sense. He goes on to describe the various types of secular music at the court and the music manuscripts compiled in and around Naples. The importance of...