Introduction. Beyond Authenticity in Music, History and Fantasy / James Cook, Alexander Kolassa, Alexander Robinson, Adam Whittaker
I. Using and Misusing Early Music. 'Official' (Televisual) History, Music, and the Reinforcement of Popular Imagination : the Case of David Starkey's Monarchy (2004-2007) / Alexander Robinson ; Damon Albarn, Dr Dee, and situation specific medievalism : An ephemeral fantasy or a disposable commodity? / Ralph Corrigan ; Shakespeare, the Early Modern, and Period Song in the American Silent Cinema / Kendra Preston Leonard ; Early Music in the 'Early Game' / Jennifer Smith ; A Masked Ritual and Backwards Priests : Aural and Visual Corruption in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut / Daniel Trocmé-Latter
II. Early music, immersive media, and virtual histories. Audio-Visual Interaction in Virtual Worlds : Seeing Sound and Hearing Objects in Visual Cultures / James Cook ; Half-real worlds? Immersion and the representation of musical pasts in virtual reality / Adam Whittaker ; Authenticity in Sound Design for Virtual Reality / Stephen Tatlow
III. Early music out of time and space. Haunted by the Past : Music and Folk Horror in Children of the Stones ; Pixels et al. : Multi-layered Representation of Past(s) in the Audio, Visual and Ludic Elements of Shovel Knight and Other Screen Media / Dean Chalmers ; The Endless Knot : Turning the Seasons in Harrison Birtwistle's Gawain (1991) and David Lowery's The Green Knight (2021) / George K. Haggett ; A Jolly Good Thirteenth-Century Romp : Galavant, Architextuality and the Intertextual Performance of Race, Gender, and Social Class in a Medievalist Musical Comedy for Television / William A. Everett.