The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music

Articles

• Tim Carter: Ottavio Rinuccini’s Narciso: A Study and Edition
• Federico Terzi: Organ Music per l’elevatione and the Council of Trent in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Contexts, Style, and Performance Practices as a Musical Representation of the Nature of the Mass
• Elizabeth Weinfield: Music, Business, and Belonging in the Antwerp Salon of Leonora Duarte (1610–1678)

Book Reviews

• Alessandro Melani, L’empio punito. Edited by Luca Della Libera. Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era 228. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2022. Reviewed by Nastasia Heckendorff.
• Für Gott und die Welt: Musik zu den Statuspassagen Ludwigs XIV. (1638‒1662). By Hanna Walsdorf. Musica poetica / Musik der Frühen Neuzeit 6. Beeskow and Berlin: Ortus Musikverlag, 2023. Reviewed by Michael Klaper.

Articles

• Alexander Silbiger: Who Wrote Froberger’s Toccata XX? Questions of Author Attribution in Early Keyboard Music
• Akira Ishii: Meter, Tactus, Tempo, and the Perception of Speed in the Keyboard Works of Johann Jacob Froberger
• Yves Ruggeri: The “Memento Mori Sibylla” of Johann Jacob Froberger

Book Reviews

• A Performer’s Guide to Transcribing, Editing, and Arranging Early Music. By Alon Schab. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Reviewed by Alexander Dean.
• Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy: New Perspectives. Edited by Lynette Bowring, Rebecca Cypess, and Liza Malamut. Music and the Early Modern Imagination. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. Reviewed by Paul G. Feller-Simmons.
• “Allegri’s Miserere” in the Sistine Chapel. By Graham O’Reilly. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2020. Reviewed by Thomas Hochradner.
• Music and Power at the Court of Louis XIII: Sounding the Liturgy in Early Modern France. By Peter Bennett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Reviewed by Deborah Kauffman.
• Annali della stampa musicale romana dei secoli XVI–XVIII. By Saverio Franchi, with Orietta Sartori. Vol. 1, part 1: Edizioni di musica pratica dal 1601 al 1650. Rome: IBIMUS, 2006. Vol. 1, part 2: Indici to vol. 1, part 1. Rome: IBIMUS, 2012. Vol. 2, part 1: Edizioni di musica pratica dal 1651 al 1670. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2021. Vol. 2, part 2: Indici e Repertorio annalistico, 1671–1800. Lucca: LIM, 2022. Reviewed by Margaret Murata.

Articles

• Rebecca Cypess: Girolamo Frescobaldi’s Fiori musicali: Music and Flowery Metaphors in Early Modern Europe
• Holly Roberts: Martyrdom and the Mythical Phoenix: Quirino Colombani’s Il martirio di Santa Cecilia
• Stephanie Carter: Thomas Mace and Music in Seventeenth-Century Cambridge

Book Reviews

• Both from the Ears & Mind: Thinking about Music in Early Modern England. By Linda Phyllis Austern. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. Reviewed by Amanda Eubanks Winkler.
• The Politics of Princely Entertainment: Music and Spectacle in the Lives of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini Colonna (1659–1689). By Valeria De Lucca. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Reviewed by Anne-Madeleine Goulet.
• Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe. Edited by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl and Grantley McDonald. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Reviewed by Rudolf Rasch.

Communication

• Desperately Seeking Patrons? A Little-Known Letter by Tiburzio Massaino. Communication from Martin Morell.

Articles

• Valeria Conti and Nicola Usula: Venetian Opera Texts in Naples from 1650 to 1653: Poppea in Context
• Sara Pecknold: Madre d’Amore: Redemptive Motherhood in Barbara Strozzi’s Sacri musicali affetti (1655)
• Martin Morell: Tiburzio Massaino and Vincenzo Gonzaga

Book Reviews

• The Harmonious Musick of John Jenkins. Volume Two: Suites, Airs and Vocal Music. By Andrew Ashbee. London: Toccata Press, 2020. Reviewed by Alon Schab.
• Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools. By Amanda Eubanks Winkler. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Reviewed by Sarah F. Williams.

Articles

• Jeffery T. Kite-Powell: Notating—Accompanying—Conducting: Intabulation Usage in the Levoča Manuscripts
• Marica S. Tacconi: Three Forged “Seventeenth-Century” Venetian Songbooks: A Cautionary Tale

Book Reviews

• “Qu’une plus belle nüit ne pouvoit précéder le beau iour”: Musica e cerimonie nelle istituzioni religiose francesi a Roma nel Seicento. By Galliano Ciliberti. Aguaplano/biblioteca Studi 12. Perugia: Aguaplano, 2016. Reviewed by Michela Berti.
• Les foyers artistiques à la fin du règne de Louis XIV (1682–1715): Musique et spectacles. Edited by Anne-Madeleine Goulet, in collaboration with Rémy Campos, Mathieu da Vinha, and Jean Duron. Épitome musical. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2019. Reviewed by Jean-Paul C. Montagnier.

Thirty Years of War: Henrich Schütz and Music in Protestant Germany

Victor Coelho, Guest Co-Editor

A Note from the Editor, Lois Rosow

Articles

• Joshua Rifkin: Glimpses of War: Schütz, the Dresden Court Chapel, and Geschichte von unten
• Bettina Varwig: Music in the Thirty Years War: Towards an Emotional History of Listening
• Derek Stauff: Music and the Leipzig Convention (1631)
• Keith Polk: Schütz in Pre-War Dresden: Performers and Their Performance Traditions, 1615–1630
• Arne Spohr: From “Seiten-Kunst” to “Fürsten Gunst”: The Careers of the Anglo-German Musicians William, Christian, and Steffen Brade in the Context of the Thirty Years War
• Joanna Carter Hunt: A Tale of Two Cantors: Heinrich Grimm (1592–1637) and Thomas Selle (1599–1663) during the Thirty Years War
• Hannah Spracklan-Holl: Protestantism, Patriotism, and the Idea of Germanness in a Seventeenth-Century Singspiel: Neu erfundenes FreudenSpiel genandt Friedens Sieg (1642)
• Torbjørn Skinnemoen Ottersen: Echoes of Heaven, Echoes of Schütz, and Echoes of the Thirty Years War? Kreuzkantor Rudolf Mauersberger and his Dresdner Requiem

Book Reviews

• Ritual Design for the Ballet Stage: Revisiting the Turkish Ceremony in “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme” (1670). Edited by Hanna Walsdorf. Cadences—Schriften zur Tanz- und Musikgeschichte 1. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2019. Reviewed by Geoffrey Burgess.
• The Sonatas of Henry Purcell: Rhetoric and Reversal. By Alon Schab. Eastman Studies in Music 146. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2018. Reviewed by John Cunningham.
• Curious & Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo’s Italy. By Rebecca Cypess. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Reviewed by Frederick Hammond.
• Music at the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr. By Deborah Kauffman. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Reviewed by John Hajdu Heyer.
• The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris. By Nicholas Hammond. Perspectives on Sensory History. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2019. Reviewed by John Romey.
• The Golden Age of Flemish Harpsichord Making: A Study of the MIM’s Ruckers Instruments. Edited by Pascale Vandervellen. Brussels: Musical Instruments Museum, 2017. Reviewed by Saraswathi Shukla.
• Dietrich Buxtehudes geistliche Vokalwerke: Texte, Formen, Gattungen. By Olga Gero. Studia musicologica Upsaliensia, nova series 26. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2016. Reviewed by Paul Walker.

Recording Reviews

• Corbetta: La guitarre royalle. Izhar Elias, Baroque guitar. Brilliant Classics, 2018. Reviewed by Michael A. Bane.
• Juan de Navas. Aves, flores y estrellas: Tonos y arias. Música ficta. Lindoro, 2017. Juan de Navas. Alado cisne de nieve: Art Songs. Música ficta. Et’cetera, 2018. Reviewed by Drew Edward Davies.

Twenty-fifth Anniversary Reflections

• An Anniversary Note from the Editor: Remembering the Beginning: Lois Rosow
• Historical and Personal Perspectives: Alexander Silbiger, Kerala J. Snyder, Margaret Murata, Brent Wissick, and Tim Carter
• The Editors Speak: A Documentary Video: Lois Rosow, with Kerala J. Snyder, Bruce Gustafson, and Kelley Harness

Articles

• Jeffrey Kurtzman: Another Example of Monteverdi’s Self-borrowing: The First Dixit Dominus in the Messa a quattro voci et salmi (1650) and the Dixit Dominus primo of the Selva morale et spirituale (1641)
• Nicholas Till: “A Free and Knightly Art”: Monteverdi’s Toccata for Orfeo and the Neo-Chivalric Ideal in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy
• Naomi Barker: Mottos and Metaphors: Towards an Interpretation of the Emblems in Frescobaldi’s Primo libro d’arie musicali
• Derek Stauff: Monteverdi and Scacchi in Breslau: Madrigal Contrafacta in a Time of Conflict

Book Reviews

• Weil es ein zierlich und lieblich ja nobilitiert Instrument ist: Der Resonanzraum der Laute und musikalische Repräsentation am Wolfenbütteler Herzogshof 1580–1625. By Sigrid Wirth. Wolfenbütteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissanceforschung 34. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. Reviewed by Alex Fisher.
• A Sociable Moment: Opera and Festive Culture in Baroque Siena. By Colleen Reardon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Reviewed by Beth L. Glixon.
• Fuga Satanae: Musique et démonologie à l’aube des temps modernes. By Laurence Wuidar. Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 150. Geneva: Droz, 2018. Reviewed by Catherine Gordon.
• Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera: A History. By Rebecca Harris-Warrick. Cambridge Studies in Opera. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Reviewed by Graham Sadler.
• Matthias Weckman: Das Leben des Hamburger Jacobi-Organisten und sein Schaffen für die Vox Humana. By Heiko Maus. Nordhausen: Verlag T. Bautz GmbH, 2016. Reviewed by Alexander Silbiger.
• The Well-Travelled Musician: John Sigismond Cousser and Musical Exchange in Baroque Europe. By Samantha Owens. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2017. Reviewed by Arne Spohr.
• Heinrich Schütz. Hochzeitsmusiken. Edited by Joshua Rifkin, with the assistance of Hope Ehn, Eva Linfield, David St. George, and Jean Widaman. In Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, vol. 29. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2016. Reviewed by Mara R. Wade.

Articles

• Federico Schneider: “Rethinking Claudio Monteverdi’s Seventh Book of Madrigals (1619) via Giovan Battista Marino’s La lira (1614)”
• Valerio Morucci: “Musical Patronage and Diplomacy: The Case of Prince Paolo Savelli (†1632)”
• Nieves Pascual León: “A Newly Recovered Collection of Canzonettas (1679) by Wolfgang Caspar Printz”

Book Reviews

• The Lure and Legacy of Music at Versailles: Louis XIV and the Aix School. By John Hajdu Heyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Reviewed by Peter Bennett.
• Jacques Champion de Chambonnières. The Collected Works. Edited by Bruce Gustafson and Denis Herlin. 2 vols. The Art of the Keyboard 12. New York: The Broude Trust, 2017. Reviewed by David Chung.
• Studien zum Stilwandel in der protestantischen Figuralmusik des mittleren 17. Jahrhunderts. By Peter Wollny. Forum Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik 5. Beeskow: Ortus, 2016. Reviewed by Mary E. Frandsen.
• Passaggio in Italia: Music on the Grand Tour in the Seventeenth Century. Edited by Dinko Fabris and Margaret Murata. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2015. Reviewed by Kimberly Beck Hieb.
• Le “giustificazioni” dell’Archivio Barberini: Inventario. Vol. 1, Le giustificazioni dei cardinali. By Luigi Cacciaglia. Studi e Testi 485. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2014. Reviewed by Margaret Murata.
• Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols. By David Dolata. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. Reviewed by Herbert W. Myers.

A Note from the Editor, Lois Rosow

Article

• Jonathan Gibson: “The Ends of Artifice in the Tragédies en Musique of Lully and Quinault”

Forum

“Staging the Baroque: The Perils and Pleasures of Baroque Opera DVDs in the Classroom”

• Rose A. Pruiksma: Introduction
• Mauro Calcagno: “Staging History? Eight Productions of Monteverdi’s Orfeo”
• Wendy Heller: “Pleasurable Passions on the Modern Stage: Cavalli on Video”
• Amanda Eubanks Winkler: “Performing the Gaps: Dido and Aeneas on Video”
• Rose A. Pruiksma: “Lully on DVD: A Focus on Dance”

Recording Review

• Monteverdi in Mantua: The Genius of the Vespers. Presented by Simon Russell Beale with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen; produced and directed by Andy King-Dabbs. Licensed by the BBC. Coro 2014. [CORO DVD 7 COR 16131] Reviewed by Jeffrey Kurtzman.

Published 2017

A Note from the Editor, Lois Rosow

Articles

• Virginia Christy Lamothe: “Martyr Saints on Stage in Light of Papal Exhortations during the Thirty Years War”
• Michael Klaper: “Bilingualism, Compositional Process, and the Quest for Meaning: The Dialogue between Italian and French Music in the Ballet de la Raillerie (1659)”

Book Reviews

• Unsuspected Competitive Contexts in Early Opera: Monteverdi’s Milanese Challenge to Florence’s “Euridice” (1600). By Federico Schneider. Temi e testi, nuova ser. 141. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2016. Reviewed by Tim Carter.
• New Perspectives on Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Edited by Shirley Thompson. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010. Reviewed by Anita Hardeman.
• The Italian Cantata in Vienna: Entertainment in the Age of Absolutism. By Lawrence Bennett. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Reviewed by Janet K. Page.

Recording Review

• Oddities & Trifles: The Very Peculiar Instrumental Music of Giovanni Valentini. ACRONYM. Olde Focus Records, 2015. [FCR904]. Giovanni Valentini: Secondo libro de madrigali. Les Canards Chantants and ACRONYM. Olde Focus Records, 2016. [FCR908]. Johann Rosenmüller in Exile. ACRONYM and Jesse Blumberg, baritone. Olde Focus Recordings, 2017. [FCR909]. Wunderkammer. ACRONYM. Olde Focus Records, 2016. [FCR906]. Reviewed by Rebecca Cypess.

Communication

• More on the Rotated tremblement appuyé: A Response to David Ledbetter. From C. David Harris.

Published 2017

A Note from the Editor, Kelley Harness

Articles

• Antonia L. Banducci: “Acteurs and Actrices as Muses: The Case for Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Repertory Troupe (1672–86)”
• Andrew H. Weaver: “Toward a New Grammar of Mid-Seventeenth-Century Harmonic Language: Hearing Expressive Harmonies in Motets from the Habsburg Court of Ferdinand III (1637–57)”

Book Reviews

• From Madrigal to Opera: Monteverdi’s Staging of the Self. By Mauro Calcagno. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. Reviewed by Andrew Eggert.
• A Performer’s Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music. Edited by Stewart Carter. Revised and Expanded by Jeffery Kite-Powell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. Reviewed by Candace Bailey.
• Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence. By Tim Carter and Richard A. Goldthwaite. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. Reviewed by Anthony M. Cummings.
• Giovanni Gabrieli and His Contemporaries: Music, Sources and Collections. By Richard Charteris. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Reviewed by Rebecca Edwards.
• The Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602–1645. By John Cunningham. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2010. Reviewed by Arne Spohr.
• Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy. By Andrew Dell’Antonio. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Reviewed by Stefanie Tcharos.
• Bohemian Baroque: Czech Musical Culture and Style, 1600–1750. By Robert G. Rawson. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2013. Reviewed by Kimberly Beck Hieb.

Published 2017

Articles

• Michael Bane: “Honnêtes gens, Amateur Musicianship, and the ‘Easy Air’ in France: The Case of Francesco Corbetta’s Royal Guitars“
• Carrie Churnside: “‘Guerra, guerra, all’armi o guerrieri!’: Depictions of the Ottoman Conflict in Bolognese Cantatas

Book Reviews

• The Ruined Bridge: Studies in Barberini Patronage of Music and Spectacle 1631–1679. By Frederick Hammond. Sterling Heights, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2010. Reviewed by Virginia Christy Lamothe.
• Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III: Representing the Counter-Reformation Monarch at the End of the Thirty Years’ War. By Andrew H. Weaver. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. Reviewed by Janet Page.
• Männer als Ammen—Frauen als Liebhaber: Cross-gender Casting in der Oper 1600–1800. By Kordula Knaus. Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 69. Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner-Verlag, 2011. Reviewed by Hendrik Schulze.

Musical Edition Review

• Jean Henry D’Anglebert. The Collected Works. Edited by C. David Harris. The Art of the Keyboard 7. New York: The Broude Trust, 2009. Reviewed by David Ledbetter.

Published 2017

A Note from the Editor, Kelley Harness

Articles

• Stephen R. Miller: “Francesco Foggia (1603–88): A Biography”
• Don Fader: “Music in the Service of the King’s Brother: Philippe I d’Orléans (1640–1701) and Court Music outside Versailles”
• Sarah F. Williams: “To the Tune of Witchcraft: Witchcraft, Popular Song, and the Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballad”

Book Reviews

• Maurizio Cazzati (1616–1678) musico guastallese: Nuovi studi e prospettive metodologiche. Edited by Paolo Giorgi. Studi e ricerche per la storia della musica a Guastalla 1. Guastalla: Associazione culturale “Giuseppe Serassi,” 2009. Reviewed by Gregory Barnett.
• The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and Their Contemporaries. By Charles E. Brewer. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. Reviewed by Rebecca Cypess.
• Jacob Van Eyck and the Others—Dutch Solo Repertoire for Recorder in the Golden Age. By Thiemo Wind. Translated by Jonathan Reeder. Muziekhistorische Monografieën 21. Utrecht: Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 2011. Reviewed by Claire Fontijn.

Recording Review

• Landi, Stefano. Il Sant’Alessio. Les Arts Florissants Orchestra and Choir and La Maîtrise de Caen Children’s Choir, directed by William Christie. Benjamin Lazar, Stage Director. Recorded live at the Théâtre de Caen, October 15 and 18, 2007. EMI Records Ltd./ Virgin Classics, 2008. 2 DVDs, 162 min. [DVD 5099951899998]. Reviewed by Maria Anne Purciello.

Communications

• More on Trumpets and Trombones in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Venice, Andreas Pilger
• Response, Jeffrey Kurtzman
• Plagiarized Book on Froberger, Bruce Gustafson

Published 2016

Report of the Conference Internationale Monteverdi-Interpretationen: Wissenschaft – Praxis – Vermittlung, Held at the Musikwissenschaftliche Institut of the Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt, July 2–4, 2009

Jeffrey Kurtzman, Guest Editor

• Jeffrey Kurtzman: Introduction
• Tim Carter: “Monteverdi and Some Problems of Biography”
• Paolo Fabbri: “L’Orfeo del 1607: Un madrigalista all’opera”
• Ulrich Siegele: “Seconda pratica: Counterpoint and Politics”
• Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort: “The Arianna Model: On Claudio Monteverdi’s Musical Conceptions”
• Jeffrey Kurtzman: “Monteverdi’s Mass and Vespers of 1610: The Economic, Social, and Courtly Context”
• Linda Maria Koldau: “The Expressive Use of Ostinato Techniques in Seicento Composition”
• Massimo Ossi: “Venus in the House of Mars: Martial Imagery in Monteverdi’s Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (1638)“
• Contributors to the Issue

Published 2015

Articles

• Beth Glixon: “Introduction”
• Colleen Reardon: “Letters from the Road: Giulia Masotti and Cardinal Sigismondo Chigi”
• Beth Glixon: “Giulia Masotti, Venice, and the Rise of the Prima Donna”
• Valeria De Lucca: “The Power of the Prima Donna: Giulia Masotti’s Repertory of Choice”
• Janet Page: “Sirens on the Danube: Giulia Masotti and Women Singers at the Imperial Court”
• “Masotti Correspondence”

Book Reviews

• Cancionero mariano de Charcas. By Andrés Eichmann Oehrli. Madrid: Iberoamericana ; Frankfurt: Vervuert, 2009. Reviewed by Drew Edward Davies.
• Le Motet à grand chœur (1660–1792): Gloria in Gallia Deo. By Thierry Favier. Paris: Fayard, 2009. Reviewed by Don Fader.
• Music in Seventeenth-Century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704). By Dinko Fabris. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007. Reviewed by Louise K. Stein.

Musical Edition Reviews

• Ballet de la Prospérité des Armes de la France. Edited by Gérard Geay. Cahier 210 “Orchestre.” Versailles: [Éditions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles], 2009. Reviewed by Rose A. Pruiksma.
• Artus Aux-Cousteaux. Octo cantica Divae Mariae Virginis. Plainchant restored by Jean-Yves Hameline. Versailles: Éditions du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, 2009. Reviewed by Peter Bennett.

Published 2013

A Note from the Editor, Kelley Harness

Articles

• Rebecca Harris-Warrick: “Reading Roland”
• Colleen Reardon: “Launching the Career of a secondo uomo in Late Seventeenth-Century Italy”

Book Reviews

• A Muse of Music in Early Baroque Florence: The Poetry of Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane. By Janie Cole. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2007. Reviewed by Paul Schleuse.
• Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power. By Suzanne G. Cusick. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. Reviewed by Andrew Dell’Antonio.
• Monteverdi’s Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy. Ellen Rosand. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Reviewed by Emily Wilbourne.
• Editing Music in Early Modern Germany. By Susan Lewis Hammond. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. Reviewed by John Kmetz.

Musical Edition Review

• Francesco Rossi, Ludovico Busca, Pietro Simone Agostini: Un’opera per Elisabetta d’Inghilterra, “Le regina Floridea” (Milan 1670). Edizione critica del libretto di Teodoro Barbò e della musica di Francesco Rossi, Ludovico Busca, Pietro Simone Agostini. Edited by Carlo Lanfossi. Milan: LED Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2009. Il Filarete, vol. 263. Reviewed by Margaret Murata.

Recording Review

• Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, The Royal Opera/The Royal Ballet. Director and Choreographer Wayne McGregor; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Conductor Christopher Hogwood DVD (Opus Arte: OA 1018D, 2009). Reviewed by Amanda Eubanks Winkler.

Published 2013

A Note from the Editor, Bruce Gustafson

Articles

• Roger Freitas, “Tranquilla guerra e cara”: Two Musical Metaphors in the Cantatas of Luigi Rossi
• Andrew Woolley, The Harpsichord Music of Richard Ayleward (?1626–1669), “an Excellent Organist” of the Commonwealth and Early Restoration
• Timothy De Paepe, French Opera in Print and on Stage in Antwerp: Three Generations of Antwerp Book Publishers and Their Opera Librettos (1682–1714)
• Patrick Wood Uribe, “On that single Instrument a full Consort”: Thomas Baltzar’s Works for Solo Violin and “the grand metamorfosis of musick”

Review-Essay

• Buxtehude’s Free Organ Works: Die freien Orgelwerke Dieterich Buxtehudes: Überlieferungsgeschichtliche und stilkritische Studien, 3rd ed., edited by Michael Belotti, reviewed by Kerala J. Snyder

Reviews

Books

• Crossing Confessional Boundaries: The Patronage of Italian Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Dresden, by Mary E. Frandsen, reviewed by Alexander J. Fisher
• How Early America Sounded, by Richard Cullen Rath, reviewed by Mariana Whitmer

Critical Editions of Music

• Thomas Elsbeth: Sontägliche Evangelien, edited by Allen Scott, reviewed by Kathryn Welter
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Motets pour chœur, vol. 8, edited by Théodora Psychoyou, reviewed by Shirley Thompson

Communication

• Previously Unknown Charpentier Manuscript at Indiana University’s Lilly Library, Carla Williams

A Note from the Editor, Bruce Gustafson

Articles

• Alexander Fisher, Celestial Sirens and Nightingales: Change and Assimilation in the Munich Anthologies of Georg Victorinus
• Bruno Forment, Moonlight on Endymion: In Search of “Arcadian Opera,” 1688–1721

Review

• Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo. By Claire Anne Fontijn, reviewed by Michele Cabrini

A Note from the Editor, Bruce Gustafson

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Articles

• Michael Klaper, Vom Ballett zur pièce à machines: Entstehung, Aufführung und Rezeption der Oper L’Orfeo (1647)
• Alessio Ruffatti, «Curiosi e bramosi l’oltramontani cercano con grande diligenza in tutti i luoghi» — La cantata romana del Seicento in Europa
• Simon Maguire, Johann Jacob Froberger: A Hitherto Unrecorded Autograph Manuscript
• Bob van Asperen, A New Froberger Manuscript

Review-Essay

• David Schulenberg, Recent Editions and Recordings of Froberger and Other Seventeenth-Century Composers

Reviews

Books

• Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism: Choir, Congregation, and Three Centuries of Conflict, by Joseph Herl, reviewed by Mary E. Frandsen
• Music and Women of the Commedia dell’Arte in the Late Sixteenth Century, by Anne MacNeil, reviewed by Kelley Harness
• The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610: Music, Context, Performance, by Jeffrey G. Kurtzman, reviewed by Massimo Ossi
• Henry Purcell’s Operas: The Complete Texts, edited by Michael Burden, reviewed by Andrew R. Walkling

Critical Editions of Music

• Jean-Baptiste Lully: Armide: tragédie en musique, edited by Lois Rosow and Jean-Noël Laurenti, reviewed by Graham Sadler
• Songs with Theorbo (ca.1650–1663), edited by Gordon S. Callon, reviewed by Andrew R. Walkling

Compact Disc

• Thomas Tomkins: Above the Starrs, Fretwork with Emma Kirkby, Catherine King, Charles Daniels, Donald Greig, Richard Wistreich, and Jonathan Arnold, reviewed by Andrew R. Walkling

Communications

• Alcina in Alcina, Juliana Gondek
• Nationality of Dan Laurin and Clas Pehrsson, Phyllis V. Haig

A Note from the Editor, Bruce Gustafson

Articles

• Michael R. Dodds, Columbus’s Egg: Andreas Werckmeister’s Teachings on Contrapuntal Improvisation in Harmonologia musica (1702)
• Brent Wissick, The Cello Music of Antonio Bononcini: Violone, Violoncello da Spalla, and the Cello “Schools” of Bologna and Rome
• C. Jane Gosine, Questions of Chronology in Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s “Meslanges Autographes”: An Examination of Handwriting Styles

Reviews

Books

• Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women’s Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice, by Wendy Heller, reviewed by Beth L. Glixon
• Monteverdi’s Musical Theatre, by Tim Carter, reviewed by Barbara Russano Hanning
• Le origini dell’opera a Milano (1598–1649), by Davide Daolmi;
• The Sounds of Milan, 1585–1650, by Robert Kendrick; reviewed by Christine Getz
• Zwischen Kirche und Karneval: Biographie, soziales Umfeld und Werk des römischen Kapellmeisters Virgilio Mazzocchi (1597–1646), by Bernhard Schrammek, reviewed by Noel O’Regan
• The Cappella Musicale of San Petronio in Bologna under Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1674–95): History, Organization, Repertoire by Marc Vanscheeuwijck, reviewed by Anne Schnoebelen
• La Chapelle royale de Versailles sous Louis XIV: Cérémonial, liturgie et musique, by Alexandre Maral, reviewed by Benjamin Van Wye
• The Recorder: A Research and Information Guide, 2nd ed., by Richard Griscom and David Lasocki, reviewed by James R. Harris

Critical Edition of Music

• Domenico Allegri, Music for an Academic Defense (Rome, 1617), edited by Anthony John, with historical and textual commentary by Louise Rice and Clare Woods, reviewed by Noel O’Regan

Facsimile Edition of Music

• Heilige Seelen-Lust [2nd edition, 1668]. By Angelus Silesius [Johannes Scheffler]. Introduction by Michael Fischer and Dominik Fugger, reviewed by Allen Scott

Communication

• A Video of Lully’s Persée, Lois Rosow

A Note from the Editor, Bruce Gustafson

Articles

• Peter Pesic, Earthly Music and Cosmic Harmony: Johannes Kepler’s Interest in Practical Music, Especially Orlando di Lasso
• Ken McLeod, Narrating a Nation: Venus on the Late Seventeenth-Century English Stage
• Gary R. Boye, The Case of the Purloined Letter Tablature: The Seventeenth-Century Guitar Books of Foriano Pico and Pietro Millioni

Review-Essay

• David Schulenberg, Editing the Keyboard Music of Bull and Scheidemann

Reviews

Books

• Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260–1807 by Jonathan Glixon, reviewed by Giulio M. Ongaro
• L’oratorio musicale italiano e i suoi contesti (secc. XVII–XVIII) edited by Paola Besutti;
• Percorsi dell’oratorio romano, Da ‘historia sacra’ a melodramma spirituale edited by Saverio Franchi; reviewed by Margaret Murata
• Holy Concord within Sacred Walls: Nuns and Music in Siena, 1575–1700 by Colleen Reardon, reviewed by Kimberlyn Montford
• Music and Theatre in France 1600–1680 by John S. Powell, reviewed by Catherine Cessac
• Touched by the Graces: the Libretti of Philippe Quinault in the Context of French Classicism by Buford Norman, reviewed by John Hajdu Heyer
• Lully Studies edited by John Hajdu Heyer, reviewed by Rose Pruiksma
• Notes of Me: the Autobiography of Roger North edited by Peter Millard, reviewed by Stacey Jocoy Houck
• Georg Muffat on Performance Practice edited and translated by David K. Wilson, reviewed by Steven Zohn
• The Viol: History of an Instrument by Annette Otterstedt, reviewed by Mary Cyr
• Figured Bass Accompaniment in France by Robert Zappulla, reviewed by Charlotte Mattax

Critical Editions of Music

• Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music, volumes 1–10: Masses, edited by Anne Schnoebelen, reviewed by Stephen R. Miller
• Giovanni Rovetta, Messa, e salmi concertati, op. 4 (1639), edited by Linda Maria Koldau, reviewed by Anne Schnoebelen
• Giovanni Antonio Rigatti, Messa e salmi, parte concertati, edited by Linda Maria Koldau, reviewed by Andrew H. Weaver
• Cesare Borgo, Primo libro di canzonette a tre voci; Giuseppe Caimo, Secondo libro di canzonette a quattro voci, edited by Laura Mauri Vigevani, reviewed by Ruth I. DeFord
• Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Church Music with Trombones, edited by Charlotte A. Leonard, reviewed by Stewart Carter
• John Hilton, Ayres, or Fa La’s for Three Voyces (1627), edited by John Morehen, reviewed by Amanda Eubanks Winkler

Facsimile Editions of Music

• Pièces de clavecin ca 1670–1685: fac-similé du manuscrit, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Royal/Koninklijk Conservatorium, Bruxelles, Ms 27220, Introduction by David Fuller;
• Jean Henry D’Anglebert, Pièces de clavecin, Introduction by Denis Herlin;
• Nicolas de Grigny, Premier Livre d’orgue: Édition originale, 1699; Copie manuscrite de J.S. Bach; Copie manuscrite de J.G. Walther, presented by Pierre Hardouin, Philippe Lescat, Jean Saint-Arroman, and Jean-Christophe Tosi; reviewed by David Ledbetter

Compact Discs

• Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine, Apollo’s Fire and Apollo’s Singers, reviewed by Jeffrey Kurtzman
• Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas, Clare College Chapel Choir and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, reviewed by Andrew R. Walkling
• John Bull, Kevin Komisaruk, organ;
• Farnaby’s Dreame, Timothy Roberts, harpsichord;
• Seaven Teares: Music of John Dowland, The King’s Noyse; reviewed by Candace Bailey
• Jean-Henry D’Anglebert: Pièces de clavecin (Paris, 1689), Hank Knox, clavicytherium, reviewed by David Chung
• Practicing Time and Art, ’t Uitnement Kabinet, reviewed by John Dornenburg

Communication

• Sequentia: An Online Database for Research into Chant and Liturgy of the Early Modern Era, Nathalie Berton, Cécile Davy-Rigaux, and Deborah Kauffman

Le Theatre de sa Gloire: Essays on Persée, Tragédie en Musique by Quinault and Lully

Dedicated to the Memory of James R. Anthony
Lois Rosow, Guest Editor

James R. Anthony (1922–2001): An Appreciation, Rebecca Harris-Warrick

Introduction, Lois Rosow

Summary of the Plot of Persée, Buford Norman

Libretto of Persée, with English Prose Translation, Lois Rosow

Review-Essay

• Antonia L. Banducci, The Opera Atelier Performance (Toronto, 2000): The Spirit of Lully on the Modern Stage

Articles

• Buford Norman, Rivalry and Collaboration: The Role of Mérope in Act I, Scene 4 of Quinault and Lully’s Persée
• Gregory Proctor, A Schenkerian Look at Lully
• Lois Rosow, Lully’s Musical Architecture: Act IV of Persée
• Ken Pierce and Jennifer Thorp, The Dances in Lully’s Persée
• Benoît Bolduc, From Marvel to Camp: Medusa for the Twenty-First Century

Communications

• The Provenance of F-Pn Vm⁷ 137305, Cited by Victor Coelho, François-Pierre Goy
• A Note from the Editor of the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Bruce Gustafson

In Armonia Favellare: Report of the International Conference on Early Opera and Monody to Commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the Italian Music Dramas of 1600, Held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 5-8, 2000

A Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Claude V. Palisca
John Walter Hill, Editor

JOHN WALTER HILL, Introduction

BARBARA RUSSANO HANNING, In memoriam Claude V. Palisca

Articles

• MAURO CALCAGNO (Harvard University), Monteverdi’s parole sceniche
• TIM CARTER (University of North Carolina), Rediscovering Il rapimento di Cefalo
• FRANCESCA CHIARELLI (Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London), Before and After: Ottavio Rinuccini’s mascherate and their Relationship to the Operatic Libretto
• VICTOR COELHO (University of Calgary), The Players of Florentine Monody in Context and in History, and a Newly Recognized Source for Le nuove musiche
• BARBARA RUSSANO HANNING (The City College of New York, CUNY), The Ending of L’Orfeo: Father, Son, and Rinuccini
• KELLEY HARNESS (University of Minnesota), Le tre Euridici: Characterization and Allegory in the Euridici of Peri and Caccini
• JOHN WALTER HILL (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Beyond Isomorphism toward a Better Theory of Recitative
• ROBERT L. KENDRICK (University of Chicago), What’s So Sacred about Sacred Opera? Reflections on the Fate of a (Sub)Genre
• JEFFREY KURTZMAN (Washington University), Deconstructing Gender in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo
• SILKE LEOPOLD (Universität Heidelberg), Die Anfänge von Oper und die Probleme der Gattung (The Beginnings of Opera and Problems of Genre)
• SARA MAMONE (Università degli Studi, Florence), Most Serene Brothers-Princes-Impresarios: Theater in Florence under the Management and Protection of Mattias, Giovancarlo, and Leopoldo de’ Medici
• ARNALDO MORELLI (Università della Calabria), The Chiesa Nuova in Rome about 1600: Music for the Church, Music for the Oratory
• MARGARET MURATA (University of California, Irvine), “Singing,” “Acting,” and “Dancing” in Vocal Chamber Music of the Early Seicento
• CLAUDE V. PALISCA (Yale University), Aria Types in the Earliest Operas
• LOUISE K. STEIN (University of Michigan), The Origins and Character of recitado
• JAMES TYLER (University of Southern California), The Role of the Guitar in the Rise of Monody: The Earliest Manuscripts

Communications

• A Note From the Editor of the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Kerala J. Snyder.

Article

• JEFFREY KURTZMAN AND LINDA MARIA KOLDAU. Trombe, Trombe d’argento, Trombe squarciate, Tromboni, and Pifferi in Venetian Processions and Ceremonies of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

Reviews

BOOK

• REBECCA HERISSONE. Music Theory in Seventeenth-Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Reviewed by Penelope Gouk.

CRITICAL EDITION OF MUSIC

• Harpsichord Music Associated with the Name La Barre. Edited by Bruce Gustafson and R. Peter Wolf. The Art of the Keyboard, 4. New York: The Broude Trust, 1999. Reviewed by Alexander Silbiger.

COMPACT DISC

• GIOVANNI ROVETTA. Vespro solenne. Cantus Cölln, directed by Konrad Junghänel. Harmonia Mundi France, 2001. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kurtzman.

BRIEFLY NOTED

by Bruce Gustafson, Reviews Editor.

Communications

Responses to articles and reviews will be published at the discretion of the editor; all responses will be considered as submitted for publication unless the author explicitly states otherwise.

• A Note From the Editor of the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Kerala J. Snyder.
• PETER ALLSOP. Corelli Defended: A Response to Gregory Barnett.
• GREGORY BARNETT. An Answer to Peter Allsop.
• PIETER DIRKSEN and DAVID HARRIS. Correspondence regarding Organ Works by the Düben Family.

Article

• SHIRLEY THOMPSON. Reflections on Four
  Charpentier Chronologies.

Reviews

BOOKS

• FRANCO BRUNI. Stampe musicali italiane alla cattedrale di Malta:
  Storia e catalogo della collezione (ACM, Mus. Pr. 1-159). Gwann,
  Malta: Publishers Enterprises Group [distributed by Lucca: LIM Editrice],
  1999. Reviewed by Anne Schnoebelen.
• ROBERT SHAY and ROBERT THOMPSON. Purcell Manuscripts: The
  Principal Musical Sources. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
  2000. Reviewed by Rebecca Herissone.
• TIM CARTER. Music, Patronage, and Printing in Late Renaissance
  Florence.Variorum Collected Studies Series CS682. Aldershot: Ashgate,
  2000. TIM CARTER. Monteverdi and his Contemporaries. Variorum
  Collected Studies Series CS690. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Reviewed
  by Kelley Harness.
• JUKKA SARJALA. Music, Morals, and the Body: An Academic
  Issue in Turku, 1653-1808. Studia Historica 65. Helsinki: Suomalaisen
  Kirjallisuuden Seura–Finnish Literature Society, 2001. Reviewed
  by Inna Naroditskaya.

CRITICAL EDITIONS OF MUSIC

• Vingt et une suites pour le clavecin de Johann Jacob Froberger
  et d’autres auteurs; Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Ms.
  1-T-595 (Strasbourg, 1675). Edited by Rudolf Rasch. Convivium Musicum
  5. Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag, 2000. Reviewed
  by Bruce Gustafson.
• MELCHIOR FRANCK. Paradisus Musicus. Edited by Martin Philip
  Setchell. Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era,106. Madison: A-R Editions, 2000. Reviewed
  by Arne Spohr.

COMPACT DISC

• HENRY PURCELL. The Fairy Queen & The Prophetess: Orchestral
  Suites. Le Concert des Nations, directed by Jordi Savall. Audivis, 1997. Reviewed by Andrew R. Walkling.

BRIEFLY NOTED

by Bruce Gustafson, Reviews Editor

Review Essay

• DAVID
  FULLER. Observations on Couperin de Turin.

Reviews

BOOKS

• PENELOPE GOUK. Music, Science
  and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England. New Haven and
  London: Yale University Press, 1999. Reviewed
  by Thomas Christensen.
• DIANE KELSEY McCOLLEY. Poetry
  and Music in Seventeenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University
  Press, 1997. Reviewed by Andrew R. Walkling.
• PETER WALLS. Music in the English
  Courtly Masque, 1604–1640. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Reviewed
  by Janet Pollack.
• A Woman Scorn’d: Responses
  to the Dido Myth. Edited by Michael Burden. London: Faber and Faber,
  1998. Reviewed by Margaret Laurie.
• ANDREW ASHBEE and DAVID LASOCKI,
  assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby. A Biographical Dictionary
  of English Court Musicians, 1485–1714. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. Reviewed by John Milsom.
• BRUCE R. SMITH. The Acoustic
  World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor. Chicago:
  University of Chicago Press, 1999. Reviewed
  by Ross W. Duffin.
• PETER ALLSOP, Arcangelo Corelli: “New Orpheus of Our Times.” Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Reviewed by Gregory Barnett.
• EDWARD L. KOTTICK and GEORGE LUCKTENBERG. Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums. Bloomington:
  Indiana University Press, 1997. Reviewed
  by Lisa Crawford.
• ALFRED PLANYAVSKY. The Baroque
  Double Bass Violone. Translated by James Barket. Lanham, MD. and
  London: Scarecrow Press, 1998. Reviewed
  by Stephen Bonta.
• FRIEDRICH JEKUTSCH, JOACHIM KREMER, and ARNDT SCHNOOR, eds. Christian
  Flor (1626–1697), Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747–1800): Texte und
  Dokumente zur Musikgeschichte Lüneburgs. Veröffentlichungen
  der Ratsbücherei Lüneburg, 6; Musik der frühen Neuzeit,
  2. Hamburg: von Bockel Verlag, 1997. Reviewed
  by Dianne M. McMullen.
• FRANCINE LANCELOT. La Belle
  Dance: Catalogue raisonné. Paris: Van Dieren, 1996. Reviewed
  by Irene Alm.

CRITICAL EDITIONS OF MUSIC

• CHIARA MARGARITA COZZOLANI. Motets.
  Edited by Robert L. Kendrick. Recent Researches in the Music of the
  Baroque Era, 87. Madison: A-R Editions, 1998. Reviewed
  by Jeffrey Kurtzman.
• Dedication Service for St.
  Gertrude’s Chapel, Hamburg, 1607. Edited by Frederick K. Gable.
  Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 91. Madison: A-R
  Editions, 1998. Reviewed by Steven Saunders.
• JOHN WELDON. The Judgment of
  Paris. Edited by David W. Music. Recent Researches in the Music
  of the Baroque Era, 94. Madison: A-R Editions, 1998. Reviewed
  by Kathryn Lowerre.
• JOHANN KLEMM. Partitura seu
  Tabulatura italica. Edited by John O. Robison. Recent Researches
  in the Music of the Baroque Era, 92. Madison: A-R Editions, 1998. Reviewed
  by Stephen Miller.
• Orgelmusik av familjen Düben
  / Organ Works by the Düben Family. Edited by Pieter Dirksen.
  Bibliotheca Organi Sueciæ, 1. Stockholm: Runa Nototext, 1997 (c.1996). Reviewed by David Harris.
• SEBASTIEN LE CAMUS. Airs à deux et trois parties. Edited by Robert A. Green. Recent Researches
  in the Music of the Baroque Era, 89. Madison: A-R Editions, 1998. Reviewed
  by Sally Sanford.

FACSIMILE EDITIONS OF MUSIC

• JEAN-HENRY D’ANGLEBERT. Pièces
  de Clavecin: Édition de 1689; Manuscrit Rés 89ter (facsimile edition). Introductions by Philippe Lescat and Jean Saint-Arroman.
  La Musique française classique de 1650 à 1800, 5688. Courlay:
  Fuzeau, 1999. 2 volumes. Reviewed by Kenneth
  Gilbert.
• NICOLAS-ANTOINE LEBEGUE. Les
  Pièces d’orgue (premier livre), 1676 (facsimile edition).
  La Musique française classique de 1650 à 1800, 5634. Courlay:
  Fuzeau, 1999. Reviewed by Élisabeth
  Gallat-Morin.
• MARIN MARAIS. Pièces
  en trio, 1692 (facsimile edition). La Musique française classique
  de 1650 à 1800, 5638. Courlay: Fuzeau, 1999. 4 part books. Reviewed
  by Herbert Schneider.
• CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON. The Seasons,
  for Two Bass-violls and a Treble with a Through-Bass for the Harpsicord
  or Organ (facsimile edition). Introduction by Margaret Urquhart.
  Manuscrits 20. Geneva: Minkoff, 1999. 4 parts. Reviewed
  by Mary Cyr.
• JEAN-NOËL MARCHAND. Cantiques
  spirituels (facsimile edition). Introduction by Thierry Favier.
  La Musique française classique de 1650 à 1800, 5648. Courlay:
  Fuzeau, 1999. 4 fascicles. Reviewed
  by Catherine E. Gordon-Seifert.

COMPACT DISC

• DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE. Organ Works.
  Lena Jacobson, organist. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (BMG Classics), 1997. Reviewed by Hans Davidsson.

BRIEFLY NOTED,

by Bruce Gustafson, Reviews Editor

The Patronage of Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Italy

A Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Jean Lionnet
Jeffrey G. Kurtzman, editor

• JEFFREY G. KURTZMAN, Preface

Articles

• NOEL O’REGAN, Asprilio Pacelli, Ludovico
  da Viadana and the Origins of the Roman Concerto Ecclesiastico
• ROBERT R. HOLZER, Response to Noel O’Regan
• EDMOND STRAINCHAMPS, Marco da
  Gagliano in 1608: Choices, Decisions, and Consequences
• SUSAN PARISI, Response to Edmond Strainchamps
• KIMBERLYN MONTFORD, L‘Anno
  santo and Female Monastic Churches: The Politics, Business and Music
  of the Holy Year in Rome (1675)
• ROBERT KENDRICK, Response to Kimberlyn
  Montford

Communications

• A Note From the Editor of the Journal
  of Seventeenth-Century Music, Kerala J. Snyder

Reviews

BOOKS

• JOHN WALTER HILL, Roman Monody, Cantata, and Opera from the Circles
  around Cardinal Montalto. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Reviewed
  by Robert L. Kendrick
• DIETRICH BARTEL, Musica Poetica: Musical-Rhetorical Figures in
  German Baroque Music. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Reviewed by George J. Buelow
• JOACHIM KREMER, Joachim Gerstenbüttel (1647–1721) im
  Spannungsfeld von Oper und Kirche: Ein Beitrag zur Musikgeschichte Hamburgs.
  Musik der frühen Neuzeit, 1. Hamburg: von Bockel Verlag, 1997. Reviewed by Frederick K. Gable
• GEOFFREY WEBBER, North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude.
  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Reviewed
  by David Yearsley

MUSICAL EDITIONS

• ANTONIO BONONCINI, Complete Sonatas for Violoncello and Basso
  Continuo. Edited by Lowell Lindgren. Recent Researches in the Music
  of the Baroque Era, 77. Madison, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., 1996. Reviewed
  by Gregory Barnett
• BARBARA STROZZI, Cantate, ariete a una, due, e tre voci, opus
  3, Edited by Gail Archer. Recent Researches in the Music of the
  Baroque Era, 83. Madison: A-R Editions, 1997. Reviewed
  by John Walter Hill
• SAMUEL CAPRICORNUS, Geistliche Harmonien III. Edited by Paul
  Walker. Collegium Musicum: Yale University, Series II, volume 13. Madison:
  A-R Editions, 1997. Reviewed by Geoffrey
  Webber
• Solo Compositions for Violin and Viola da Gamba with Basso Continuo
  from the Collection of Prince-Bishop Carl Liechtenstein-Castelcorn at
  Kromeriz. Edited by Charles E. Brewer. Recent Researches in the
  Music of the Baroque Era, 82, Madison: A-R Editions, 1997. Reviewed
  by Peter Wollny
• HENRY ALDRICH, Selected Anthems and Motet Recompositions,
  Edited by Robert Shay. Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque
  Era, 85. Madison: A-R Editions, 1998. Reviewed
  by Michael Burden
• ELISABETH-CLAUDE JACQUET DE LA GUERRE, Céphale et Procris.
  Edited by Wanda R. Griffiths. Recent Researches in the Music of the
  Baroque Era, 88. Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 1998. Reviewed
  by Carl B. Schmidt
• CHARLES (?) HUREL, Tablature de luth et de théorbe (ca.
  1675): Ms PLM 17524 BDG, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
  Preface by François Lesure. Geneva: Minkoff, 1996;ELISABETH
  JACQUET DE LA GUERRE, Les Pièces de clavessin, premier livre.
  Introduction by Carol Bates. Geneva: Minkoff, 1996, and Manuscrit
  Bauyn (ca. 1690): Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France Ms.
  Rés 674–675. Second Edition. Preface by Davitt Moroney.
  Geneva: Minkoff, 1998. Reviewed by
  David Ledbetter
• JEAN (?) DE SAINTE-COLOMBE, Recueil de pièces de basse
  de viole en musique et en tablature (ca. 1690): Manuscrit de Tournus
  (ms M.3, Bibliothèque municipale, Tournus). Introduction
  and index by François-Pierre Goy. Preface by Henri Lévêque.
  Geneva: Minkoff, 1998; Recueil de pièces de viole en musique
  et en tablature (1666) (Ms M2.1 T2.17C.Case, Washington: Library of
  Congress). Introduction and index by Stuart Cheney. Geneva: Minkoff,
  1998. Reviewed by Mary Cyr

COMPACT DISCS

• MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER, Messe pour le Port-Royal. Michel
  Chapuis, organ; les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr; Emmanuel, director. Auvidis/Astrée,
  1997. Reviewed by Benjamin Van Wye
• Seventeenth-Century French Harpsichord Music. Edward Parmentier,
  harpsichord. Wildboar, 1990;The Bauyn Manuscript: Seventeenth-Century
  French Harpsichord Music. Byron Schenkman, harpsichord. Wildboar,
  1997; and Music for the Royal Pleasures: Harpsichord, Lute, and Organ
  Music in the Salon of Louis XIV. Linda Burman-Hall, harpsichord
  and organ; with Catherine Liddell, lute. Wildboar, 1997. Reviewed
  by Denis Herlin
• BIAGIO MARINI, Curiose & moderne inventioni. Romanesca.
  Harmonia Mundi USA, 1997. Reviewed by Paul
  Whitehead
• In stil moderno: The Fantastic Style in Seventeenth-Century Italy.
  Ingrid Matthews, baroque violin; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord. Wildboar,
  1995;ANDREA FALCONIERI, Canzone, Sinfonie, Fantasie, Capricci,
  Brandi, Correnti, Gagliarde, Alemane, Volte (Naples, 1650). La Luna:
  Ingrid Matthews and Scott Metcalfe, violins; Emily Walhout, viola da
  gamba; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord. Wildboar, 1996;and ELISABETH-CLAUDE
  JACQUET DE LA GUERRE, Sonates pour le viollon, 1707. Ingrid Matthews,
  baroque violin; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord; Margriet Tindemans, viola
  da gamba. Wildboar, 1996. Reviewed by
  Linda Maria Koldau

BRIEFLY NOTED

by Bruce Gustafson, Reviews Editor

Articles

• DAVID SCHULENBERG, Some Problems
  of Text, Attribution, and Performance in Early Italian Baroque Keyboard
  Music

Reviews

BOOKS

• Performing the Music of Henry Purcell. Edited by Michael Burden.
  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Reviewed by
  Robert Shay
• The Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Tragédies Lyriques: A
  Catalogue Raisonné. Compiled by Carl B. Schmidt. New York: Performers’ Editions [Broude Brothers], 1995. Reviewed
  by Lois Rosow
• The Registration of Baroque Organ Music. By Barbara Owen. Bloomington:
  Indiana University Press, 1997. Reviewed
  by Lawrence Archbold

MUSICAL EDITIONS

• Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Meslanges autographes, vol. 1. Introductions
  by Catherine Massip and H. Wiley Hitchcock. “Œuvres complètes,” I. Paris: Minkoff France, 1990. Reviewed
  by John S. Powell
• Jean-Baptiste Lully, Quare fremuerunt gentes, LWV 67; Notus in
  Judaea Deus, LWV 7/177; Exaudiat te Dominus, LWV 77/15. Edited by
  Lionel Sawkins and Carl B. Schmidt; John Hajdu Heyer; and Anne Baker
  (respectively). “Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Collected Works” series IV, vol. 5. New York: The Broude Trust, 1996. Reviewed
  by Philippe Vendrix

COMPACT DISCS

• William Byrd, Virginals & Consorts. Skip Sempé, harpsichord
  and director; Capriccio stravagante. Auvidis/Astrée,
  1997. Reviewed by Candace Bailey
• Nicolas Vallet, Le Secret des Muses.
  Eugène Ferré, lute solo; with Jérôme Blum, Brian Freehan, and Pascal
  Monteilhet, lutes. Auvidis/Astrée, 1997 [Auvidis E 8591.] Reviewed by
  David J. Buch

BRIEFLY NOTED

by Bruce Gustafson, Reviews Editor

Reviews

BOOKS

• ROBERT L. KENDRICK, Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Their Music
  in Early Modern Milan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). Reviewed
  by Steven Saunders
• STEVEN SAUNDERS, Cross, Sword, and Lyre: Sacred
  Music at the Imperial Court of Ferdinand II of Habsburg (1619-1637) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995). Reviewed
  by Stewart Carter
• NOEL O’REGAN, Institutional Patronage in Post-Tridentine
  Rome: Music at Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini 1550-1650 (London: Royal Musical Association, 1995). Reviewed
  by Giuseppe Gerbino
• BERNARD BRAUCHLI, SUSAN BRAUCHLI, AND ALBERTO GALAZZO,
  editors., De Clavicordio II: Proceedings of the International Clavichord
  Symposium, Magnano, 21-23 September 1995 (Magnano: Musica Antica
  a Magnano, 1996). Reviewed by David
  Harris

MUSICAL EDITIONS

• GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI, “Fioretti del Frescobaldi”:
  London, British Library Add. 40080, edited by Andrea Marcon and
  Armin Gaus (Zimmern ob Rottweil: Edition Gaus, 1994). Reviewed
  by Frederick Hammond
• Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music, Anne
  Schnoebelen, general editor (25 vols.; New York and London: Garland
  Publishing, Inc., 1995- ). Reviewed
  by Jonathan Glixon
• JOHANN CASPAR KERLL, The Collected Works for
  Keyboard (New York: The Broude Trust, 1995), and Four Suites (New York: The Broude Trust, 1991), edited by C. David Harris. Reviewed
  by David R. Fuller
• GUILLAUME-GABRIEL NIVERS, Motets à voix seule,
  accompagnée de la basse continue, Paris, 1689, introduced
  by Philippe Lescat and Jean Saint-Arroman (Courlay: Fuzeau, 1994), and
  ROBERT BALLARD, Premier Livre de tablature de luth, 1611, introduced
  by Pascale Boquet and François-Pierre Goy (Courlay: Fuzeau, 1995). Reviewed by David J. Buch

COMPACT DISCS

• Stravaganze: 17th-Century Italian Songs and Dances,
  performed by The King’s Noyse: David Douglass, director, with Andrew
  Lawrence-King, harp (Harmonia Mundi USA, 1995). Reviewed
  by Wendy Heller
• JOHANN HEINRICH SCHMELZER, Violin Sonatas, performed
  by Romanesca: Andrew Manze, violin; Nigel North, theorbo; John Toll,
  harpsichord and organ (Harmonia Mundi USA, 1996). Reviewed
  by Peter Wollny

BRIEFLY NOTED

by Bruce Gustafson, Reviews Editor

Articles

• ALEXANDER SILBIGER, Passacaglia and
  Ciaccona: Genre Pairing and Ambiguity from Frescobaldi to Couperin

Communications

• A Note From
  the Editor of the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Kerala
  J. Snyder

Articles

• JONATHAN GLIXON, Far il buon concerto: Music at the Venetian Scuole Piccole in the Seventeenth Century
• SALLY A. SANFORD, A Comparison of French
  and Italian Singing in the Seventeenth Century

Reviews

• Carolyn Gianturco, Alessandro Stradella
  1639-1682: His Life and Music (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994). Reviewed
  by Ellen Rosand