Introduction: urban history, musicology and cities and towns in Renaissance Europe / Fiona Kisby -- Music and urban culture in Austria: comparing profiles / Reinhard Strohm -- Magnificence as civic image: music and ceremonial space in early modern Venice / Iain Fenlon -- Secular music in the burgh of Haddington, 1530-1640 / John J. McGavin -- Civic subsidy and musicians in southern France during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: a comparison of Montpellier, Toulouse and Avignon / Gretchen Peters -- Masses, morris and metrical psalms: music in the English Parish, c. 1400-1600 / Beat Kümin -- The role of religious guilds in the cultivation of ritual polyphony in England: the case of Louth, 1450-1550 / Magnus Williamson -- Academic colleges in the Oxford community, 1400-1560 / Beth Anne Lee-De Amici -- Music and court in Charles V's Valladolid, 1517-1539 / Soterraña Aguirre Rincón -- Change and continuity in the Reformation period: church music in north German towns, 1500-1600 / Joachim Kremer -- Cathedral music, city and state: music in Reformation and political change at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin / Barra Boydell -- Singers and scribes in the secular churches of Brussels / Barbara Haggh -- Music and moonlighting: the cathedral choirmen of early modern England, 1558-1649 / James Saunders -- Urban musical life in the European colonies: examples from Spanish America, 1530-1650 / Egberto Bermúdez.