The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music

The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music

☰ Menu

Items appearing in JSCM may be saved and stored in electronic or paper form and may be shared among individuals for all non-commercial purposes. For a summary of the Journal's open-access license, see the footer to the homepage, https://sscm-jscm.org. Commercial redistribution of an item published in JSCM requires prior, written permission from the Editor-in-Chief, and must include the following information:

This item appeared in the Journal of Seventeenth Century Music (https://sscm-jscm.org/) [volume, no. (year)], under a CC BY-NC-ND license, and it is republished here with permission.

Libraries may archive complete issues or selected articles for public access, in electronic or paper form, so long as no access fee is charged. Exceptions to this requirement must be approved in writing by the Editor-in-Chief of JSCM.

Citations of information published in JSCM should include the paragraph number and the URL. The content of an article in JSCM is stable once it is published (although subsequent communications about it are noted and linked at the end of the original article); therefore, the date of access is optional in a citation.

We offer the following as a model:

Noel O’Regan, “Asprilio Pacelli, Ludovico da Viadana and the Origins of the Roman Concerto Ecclesiastico,” Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 6, no. 1 (2000): par. 4.3, https://sscm-jscm.org/v6/no1/oregan.html.

‹‹ Table of Contents
Volume 2 (1996) No. 1

A Note from the Editor

Kerala J. Snyder

With this issue we commence publication as the official, refereed journal of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. During the months of silence since the appearance of our prototype issue last year we have assembled an editorial board, developed policies, and begun the process of collecting articles, sending them out for peer review, and preparing them for publication. Since we do not have to worry about contractual obligations to a printer, we have decided to publish single articles as soon as they are ready rather than holding them until a traditional multi-article issue could be assembled. Here, as in every aspect of this journal, we aim to uphold the highest standards of our discipline in the scholarly essentials while exploring all the possibilities that this flexible new medium offers. I am delighted that the first article to be ready was written by a member of the Editorial Board, Alexander Silbiger.

We continue to investigate various options in presenting sound with our articles. In this issue we offer three examples of harpsichord music in MIDI format. The degree to which they resemble an actual harpsichord will vary with the configuration of individual computers. MIDI's advantage lies in the fact that its files are much smaller than recorded audio files, and therefore they can be downloaded much more quickly. For example, Sanford's 19-second audio example 5 in volume 1 (note 1) occupies 1,170 kilobytes of disk space, whereas Silbiger's 45-second MIDI example 1 in this issue uses only 1.99 kilobytes. Please refer to the technical notes on the Journal's home page for more information on MIDI format and send me your comments concerning its use in this article. [Editor's Note, November 22, 2016: We have converted these files to mp3 format; nevertheless, they retain their original synthesized sound.] 

Kerala J. Snyder <kerala.snyder@rochester.edu>