Volume 1: Incitamentum amoris musica [picta] / Maria Cavalli, copyist and teacher / David Rosand. Il ritorno di Poppea : a new German source provokes some new thoughts -- and old arguments / Alan Curtis ; An unreported Mantuan libretto from 1623 / Gary Tomlinson -- The triumph of inconstancy : the vicissitudes of a seventeenth-century libretto / Beth L. Glixon and Jonathan E. Glixon ; A letter on Benedetto Ferrari, "Eccellentissimo sonator di tiorba" / Dinko Fabris -- Performance studies: Recordings of music written for St. Mark's : an architectural historian's view / Deborah Howard ; The twenty-two steps : clef anomalies or "basso alla bastarda" in mid-seventeenth-century Italian opera / Álvaro Torrente -- Eroticisms and identities: "Indarno chiedi" : Clorinda and the interpretation of Monteverdi's Combattimento / Suzanne G. Cusick ; The veil, the mask, and the eunuch : sight, sound, and imperial erotics in L'incoronazione di Poppea / Wendy Heller ; Baciami, Claudio : psychological depth and carnal desire in the Marino settings of Monteverdi's book seven / Andrew H. Weaver -- Music and classical literature: Powerless spirit : echo on the musical stage of the late Renaissance / Barbara Russano Hanning ; Excavating Virgil in Counter-Reformation Rome : Domenico Mazzocchi's Dialoghi based on the Aeneid / Susan Parker Shimp -- Poetic considerations: Music as a fonte della varietà : Sforza Pallavicino on the aria / Robert R. Holzer ; Giambattista Marino's operatic aesthetics / Giuseppe Mazzotta ; Strophic form in the canzonettas of Orazio Vecchi, Luca Marenzio, and Claudio Monteverdi / Ruth I. Deford ; Cantar ottave, cantar storie / Margaret Murata ; Dramatizing discourse in seventeenth-century opera : music as illocutionary force in Francesco Cavalli's Giasone (1649) / Mauro Calcagno -- Music and painting: Incitamentum amoris musica [picta] / David Rosand. Volume 2: Manly music : reading Victorian language / Hearing voices, stories, and sounds in eighteenth-century opera and cantata: The choices of Hercules and Handel / Ruth A. Solie. The cantata as narrative : serials, colloquies, and commemoratives / Ellen T. Harris ; Continuities of time in Handel's operas / Nathan Link ; The Metastasian sonosphere / Giovanni Morelli -- Hearing voices in German song: Music for a Saxon princess / Rebecca Cypess ; Text, voice, and genre in "Nun ist der Herr zu Ruh gebracht" BWV 244/67 / Daniel R. Melamed ; Ellen's songs (D. 837-39) / Joseph Kerman ; Happy and sad : Robert Schumann's art of ambiguity / Kristina Muxfeldt -- Hearing voices through time: Beethoven's Handel and the Messiah copies / Bathia Churgin ; The Livre d'or of Charlotte de Rothschild / Philip Gossett ; The art of artlessness, or, Adelina Patti teaches us how to be natural / Roger Freitas ; Manly music : reading Victorian language / Ruth A. Solie.
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