*Kimberly Beck Hieb (kimberlyhieb@gmail.com) is Assistant Professor of Music History at West Texas A&M University. Her research, which takes up questions of genre as well as religious and political representation in early modern music, has been supported in part by a Fulbright research fellowship, the Austrian Exchange Agency, and a Eugene K. Wolf travel grant from the American Musicological Society. Other research interests include genre studies and music history pedagogy.
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[2] Nino Pirrotta, “Commedia dell’arte and Opera,” Musical Quarterly 41, no. 3 (1955): 169–89; reprinted in Pirrotta, Music and Culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque: A Collection of Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), 343–62.
