Performance today / Nicholas Kenyon -- Political process, social structure, and music performance in Europe since 1450 / William Weber -- The evidence / Robin Stowell -- The performer and the composer / Corey Jamason -- The teaching of performance / Natasha Loges and Colin Lawson -- Music and musical performance : histories in disjunction? / David Wright -- The ancient world / Eleonora Rocconi -- Performance before c. 1430 : an overview / John Haines -- Vocal performance before c. 1430 / Jeremy Summerly -- Instrumental performance before c. 1430 / Stefano Mengozzi -- Case study : Guillaume de Machaut, ballade 34, Quant Theseus/Ne quier veoir / John Haines -- Performance in the Renaissance : an overview / Jon Banks -- Vocal performance in the Renaissance / Timothy J. McGee -- Instrumental performance in the Renaissance / Keith Polk -- Case study : Seville Cathedral's music in performance, 1549-1599 / Owen Rees -- Performance in the seventeenth century : an overview / Tim Carter -- Vocal performance in the seventeenth century / Richard Wistreich -- Instrumental performance in the seventeenth century / David Ponsford -- Case study : Monteverdi, Vespers (1610) / Jonathan P. Wainwright -- Performance in the