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Volume 31 (2025) No. 1

A Note from the Editor

In a thoughtful essay on newspaper publishing in an online world, two specialists in digital editing observe that space constraints limit the content of print newspapers, but “conversely, while the information supplied by online news sources may be ‘unlimited,’ only a fraction of it is visible; by contrast, a five-minute scan of the whole edition of the print version can give a good overview of what is available.” I thought of that remark as I prepared this issue of JSCM. The Contents page provides links to two articles, but it does not offer any way for the reader to know that one of those articles has the size and scope of a monograph, while the other is a normal journal article. The online medium gives us not only the flexibility to publish an item much too long for a typical print journal but also the luxury of invisible imbalance.

Here, Jeffrey Kurtzman and Licia Mari examine in detail the ongoing relationship between the Gonzaga ducal family and the various churches of Mantua. Then, turning to a focus on Monteverdi, they contextualize the Mass and Vespers of 1610 from both liturgical and source-critical perspectives, demonstrating that the print contains not a miscellaneous collection of pieces but an unequivocal polyphonic Vespers of the Virgin; and they ultimately propose a new reading of the five sacri concentus. Alana Mailes surveys the writings of English and Scottish travelers to Venice in the first half of the seventeenth century. She shows that their musical commentary offers a window into “broader cultural, diplomatic, commercial, and confessional relations” at a time of greatly improved diplomatic and commercial dealings between England and Catholic Europe.

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With this issue of the Journal I welcome Maria Purciello as our new Reviews Editor. In addition to thanking her predecessor, Don Fader, for his years of service, I am pleased to present a review of his recent book. The review was commissioned by me and delivered to Maria; Don is now seeing it for the first time.

Lois Rosow
Editor-in-Chief
rosow.1@osu.edu