Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century.Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music, and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume 23 include: Guillaume de Machaut and his Canonry of Reims 1338-1377; Reading Carnival: The Creation of a Florentine Carnival Song; Schein's Occasional Music and the Social Order in 1620s Leipzig.Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century and includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music, and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume 23 include: Guillaume de Machaut and his Canonry of Reims 1338-1377; Reading Carnival: The Creation of a Florentine Carnival Song; Schein's Occasional Music and the Social Order in 1620s Leipzig.Early Music History is devoted to the study of music from the early Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century. It includes manuscript studies, textual criticism, iconography, studies of the relationship between words and music, and the relationship between music and society. Articles in volume 23 include: Guillaume de Machaut and his Canonry of Reims 1338-1377; Reading Carnival: The Creation of a Florentine Carnival Song; Schein's Occasional Music and the Social Order in 1620s Leipzig.1. Guillaume de Machaut and his canonry of Reims 13381377 Roger Bowers; 2. 'Notes as a garland': the chronology and narrative of Byrd's Gradualia Kerry McCarthy; 3. Folio format and musical organisation in the liturgical repertoire of the Ivrea and Apt codices Kevin N. Moll; 4. Architectural spaces for music: Jacopo Sansovino and Adrian Willaert at St Mark's Laura Moretti; 5. Reading lS)