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False Relations Remain One Of The Great Enigmas Of English Renaissance Musical Culture. Contemporary Theoretical Treatises Explicitly Discouraged Their Use, And Yet These Deliberate Dissonances Are Hallmarks Of English Renaissance Music. Over The Centuries They Have Accumulated A Surfeit Of Subsequent Connotations That Have Obscured How They Once Functioned, Yet They Have Never Been Fully Critically Explored Or Elucidated In An English Context. In 'syrene Soundes', Author Eleanor Chan Excavates Beneath Strata Of Accumulated Meanings To Uncover The Way That False Relations Delighted And Confounded Their Original Listeners And Performers. Eleanor Chan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.