First published in 1999, the essays that follow have been selected from the author’s writings to explore musical institutions in 15th and 16th century Italy with a detailed focus on the papal choir, but with additional comments on Mantua (Mantova), Florence and France. Much of the material which formed the basis of those essays was largely drawn from archives. Richard Sherr explores diverse areas including the Medici coat of arms in a motet for Leo X, performance practice in the papal chapel during the 16th century, the publications of Guglielmo Gonzaga, Lorenzo de’ Medici as a patron of music and homosexuality in late sixteenth-century Italy.
This report sets out the first independent research into the contracting system for legal help since an exclusive civil contracting system was introduced by the Legal Services Commission in April 2000. There are two basic aims behind this policy: to concentrate funding on providers who are quality assured in order to raise standards (the quality agenda); and to provide a mechanism to control expenditure and delivery of legal services to meet public legal needs (the access agenda). In order to address the shortfall in the range of work categories provided by contracted legal organisations, the term 'tolerance work' refers to the limited amounts of work which the Commission allows contractees to conduct outside their stated specialist legal work categories. This research report into the management of tolerance work gives a useful indicator of any access problems arising within the contracting system, as well as providing an opportunity to discuss where the balance lies between the access/quality agendas, and to test the assumption that specialists, in contracting terms, provide higher levels of quality in legal advice than generalists.
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