Introduction

1. Opera Is Born: The Wedding of Music and Drama in Late Renaissance Florence

Originally published in The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera, ed. Jacqueline Waeber. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 3–21.

2. Music and the Arts [in the Seventeenth Century]

Originally published in The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music, eds. Tim Carter and John Butt. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 111–31.

3. Music in Italy on the Brink of the Baroque

Originally published in Renaissance Quarterly 37 no. 1 (Spring 1984) 1–20.

4. Apologia pro Ottavio Rinuccini

Originally published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society 26 no. 2 (1973) 240--62.

5. The Ending of L’Orfeo: Father, Son, and Rinuccini

Originally published in the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 9/1 (2003)



6. Powerless Spirit: Echo as a Trope on the Musical Stage of the Late Renaissance

Originally published in Word, Music, and Song: Essays on Early Modern Italy, 2 vols., edited by Rebecca Cypress, Beth L. Glixon, and Nathan Link (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013) I: 193–218.

7. Monteverdi’s Three Genera: A Study in Terminology

Originally published in Musical Humanism and Its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Claude V. Palisca, edited by Nancy Kovaleff Baker and Barbara Russano Hanning. Festschrift Series No. 11 (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1992) 145–70.

8. Tasso and the Italian Madrigal

Originally published in Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic, ed. Jo Ann Cavallo (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2018) 271–79.

9. Love’s New Voice: Italian Monodic Song

Originally published in The World of Baroque Music, New Perspectives, ed. George Stauffer (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006) 25–47.



10. Some Images of Monody in the Early Baroque

Originally published in Con che soavità: Studies in Italian Opera, Song, and Dance, 1580–1740, edited by Iain Fenlon and Tim Carter (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) 1–12.

11. Glorious Apollo: Poetic and Political Themes in the First Opera

Originally published in Renaissance Quarterly 32, no. 4 (Winter 1979) 485-513.

12. From Saint to Muse: Representations of Saint Cecilia in Florence

Originally published in Music in Art (International Journal for Music Iconography) 29,

nos. 1–2 (Spring/Fall 2004) 91–103.

13. The Iconography of a Salon Concert: A Reappraisal

Originally published in French Musical Thought, 1600–1800, ed. Georgia Cowart (Ann

Arbor and London: UMI Research Press, 1989) 129–48.

14. Conversation and Musical Style in the Late Eighteenth-Century Parisian Salon

Originally published in Eighteenth-Century Studies 22, no. 4 (Summer 1989) 512-528.