The World of Baroque music: new perspectives

Preface 1. Songs of Shakespeare's England / Craig Monson 2. Love's Voice: Italian Monodic Song / Barbara Russano Hanning 3. The Rise of Italian Chamber Music / Mary Oleskiewicz 4. Music for Church and Community: Buxtehude in Lubeck / Kerala J. Snyder 5. The Arts and Royal Extravagance: Music at the French Court / George B. Stauffer 6. The Songs of Solomon (Rossi) as the Search for History / Michael Beckerman 7. Usurping the Place of the Muses: Barbara Strozzi and the Female Composer in Seventeenth-Century Italy / Wendy Heller 8. The Baroque Guitar: Players, Paintings, Patrons, and the Public / Victor Coelho 9. Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Music in Northern Europe: Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands / David Schulenberg 10. Bach and the Bounds of Originality / George B. Stauffer 11. Bach's St. John Passion: Can We Really Still Hear the Work--and Which One? / Daniel R. Melamed 12. Music in the New World: The Baroque in Mexico and Brazil / Gerard Behague Sampler CDs Track List PGM Recordings: Catalog List of Contributors Index