BOOKS:

  • The Manuscript Sources of Seventeenth-Century Italian Lute Music. New York: Garland, 1995.
  • (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • (ed.) Performance on Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela: Historical Practice and Modern Interpretation. Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • (ed.) Music and Science in the Age of Galileo. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.
  • (with Keith Polk) Instrumental Music and Renaissance Culture, accepted by Cambridge University Press, to be completed in 2012.
  • The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones. Cambridge University Press, in progress.

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ARTICLES

"Through the Lens, Darkly: Peter Whitehead and the Rolling Stones," Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 52 (2011), 174-91.

"Bronzino’s Lute Player: Music and Youth Culture in Renaissance Florence,Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors (Florence: Leo Olschki, 2012), in press.

(with Keith Polk) "Instrumental Music in Europe: 1520-1640." In European Music, 1520-1640. Ed. James Haar. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2006, 527-55.


Music in New Worlds,” in The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music. Ed. T. Carter and J. Butt. Cambridge University Press, 2006: 88-110.


“Papal Tastes and Musical Genres: Francesco da Milano ‘Il Divino’ (1497-1543), and the Clementine Aesthetic,” in The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture. Ed. K. Gouwens & S. Reiss. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005: 277-92. [PDF]


“The Baroque Guitar: Players, Patrons, Paintings, and the Public,” in The World of Baroque Music, ed. G. Stauffer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 200, 184-203.

“Rock (and Rolling Stone) Shrines in Calgary,” Calgary Magazine (July, 2002). [PDF


“The Players of Florentine Monody in Context and in History, and a Newly Recognized Source for Le Nuove Musiche” Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 9 (2003), 48-67.


“Picking through Cultures: A Guitarist’s Music History,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar. Ed. V. Coelho. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002: 1-14.

Saudades and the Goan Poetic Temper: Globalising Goan Cultural History,” in Goa and Portugal: History and Development. Ed. C. Borges, O. Pereira, and H. Stube. New Delhi: Concept Publishing, 2000: 319-25.


“Public Works and Private Contexts: Lorenzo Allegri and the Florentine Intermedi of 1608,” in Luths en Occident, ed. J. Dugot. Paris: Éditions Klincksieck, 1999: 101-12.


“Music in Portuguese India and Renaissance Music Histories,” in Vasco da Gama and India, ed. Teotonio de Souza. 3 vols. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1999: iii/185-94.


Revisiting the Workshop of Howard Mayer Brown: [Josquin’s] Obsecro te Domina and the Context of Arrangement, in ‘La musique de tous les passetemps le plus beau’: Hommage à Jean-Michel Vaccaro, ed. H. Vanhulst, F. Lesure & V. Coelho. Paris: Éditions Klincksieck, 1998: 47-65.


“Kapsberger’s Apotheosis… of Francis Xavier (1622) and the Conquering of India,” in The Work of Opera: Genre, Nationhood, and Sexual Difference, ed. R. Dellamora & D. Fischlin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997: 27-47.


“Authority, Autonomy, and Interpretation in Seventeenth-Century Italian Lute Music,” in Performance on Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela: Historical Practice and Modern Interpretation, ed. Victor Coelho, Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997: 108-41. [PDF]


“Connecting Histories: Portuguese Music in Renaissance Goa,” in Goa and Portugal: Their Cultural Links, ed. C. Borges, S.J. and Helmut Feldmann. Xavier Centre of Historical Research Series No. 7. New Delhi: Concept Publishing, 1997: 131-47.


“The Reputation of Francesco da Milano (1497-1543) and the Ricercars in the Cavalcanti Lute Book,” Revue Belge de Musicologie 50 (1996): 49-72.


“Raffaello Cavalcanti’s Lute Book (1590) and the Ideal of Singing and Playing,” in Le Concert des voix et des instruments à la Renaissance. Ed. Jean-Michel Vaccaro. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1995: 423-42. [PDF]


“Marino’s Toccata between the Lutenist and the Nightingale,” in The Sense of Marino: Literature, Fine Arts and Music of the Italian Baroque. Ed. Francesco Guardiani. New York & Toronto: Legas, 1994: 395-427.


Mozart didn’t like Gould Either: in Defence of Andante grazioso,” Queen’s Quarterly 99 (1992), pp. 916-27.


“Musical Myth and Galilean Science in Giovanni Serodine’s Allegoria della Scienza,” in Music and Science in the Age of Galileo. Ed. V. Coelho. University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science 51. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992: 91-114.


“Frescobaldi and the Lute and Chitarrone Toccatas of ‘Il Tedesco della tiorba’” in Frescobaldi Studies, ed. A. Silbiger. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987: 137-56.


“G.G. Kapsberger ‘della tiorba’ e l’influenza liutistica sulle Toccate di Frescobaldi,” in Girolamo Frescobaldi nel IV centenario della nascita, ed. S. Durante & D. Fabris. Florence: Leo Olschki, 1986: 341-57.


“Girolamo Frescobaldi” Diàlogos 21 (1985): 42-45.


“Studies in the Lute and its Music: Prospects for the Future,” Journal of the Lute Society of America 17-18 (1984-85): 118-32.


“Clark and the Romantics: A Cache of Musical Manuscripts.” The William Andrews Clark Library Newsletter 6 (Spring 1984): 4-5.


“G.G. Kapsberger in Rome, 1604-1645: New Biographical Data,” Journal of the Lute Society of America 16 (1983): 103-33. [PDF]


ARTICLES IN DICTIONARIES:

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie (7th ed.). London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 2001:

Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger

Albert de Rippe

Joanambrosio Dalza.

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Ed. Stanley Sadie. London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1992:

Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger.

Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1999-.

Juan Carlos Amat

Francesco da Milano [English translation PDF]

Alessandro Piccinini [English translation PDF]

 RECORDINGS

  • Antonio Vivaldi, Four Seasons, w/Boston Baroque, dir. Martin Pearlman, Telarc (2009)
  • Bellerofonte Castaldi, Battaglia d’Amore, Il Furioso, Toccata Classics (2008)
  • G.G. Kapsberger, Songs of Human and Divine Love: Il Libro secondo d’arie (1623), Il Furioso, Toccata Classics 0027 (2006)
  • La Notte d’Amore: Music for the Marriage of Cosimo II Medici and Maria Maddalena of Austria, Il Complesso Barocco (2003), dir. Alan Curtis & V. Coelho, Stradivarius 33636. Winner, Prelude Classical Award 2004 (Baroque vocal music: Ensemble)
  • Bluestoons, The Rooster Blues Band, CD-UCM 0105
  • Come on in my Kitchen: The Rooster Band Live CD-UCM 0101

 

REVIEWS:

  • James Tyler and Paul Sparks, The Guitar and its Music from the Renaissance to the Classical Era. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), in Renaissance Quarterly, 57/1 (2004), 323-25.
  • Berliner Lautentabulaturen in Krakau: Beschreibender Katalog der handschriftlichen Tabulaturen für Laute und verwandte Instrumente in der Biblioteka Jagielloñska Kraków aus dem Besitz der ehemaligen Preußischen Staatsbibliothek Berlin. Ed. Dieter Kirsch and Lenz Meierott (Mainz: Schott, 1992), in Notes 52 (1995): 85-88.
  • Sources manuscrites en tablature, luth et théorbe (c. 1500-c.1800): Catalogue déscriptif. Vol. 1: Confoederatio Helvetica (CH), France (F), ed. F-P. Goy, C. Meyer, M. Rollin (Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 1991), in  Notes 51 (1994): 112-115.
  • Robert Toft, Aural Images of Lost Traditions: Sharps and Flats in the Sixteenth Century (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992) in Canadian University Music Review 13 (1993): 145-53.
  • Tablature de luth italienne, dit Siena Manuscrit (ca 1560-1570), ed. Arthur J. Ness (Geneva: Éditions Minkoff), in Notes 46 (1989-90): 1060-63.
  • Jean-Michel Vaccaro, La musique de luth en France au XVIe siècle (Paris: CNRS, 1981) in the Journal of the American Musicological Society 38 (1985): 369-76.

 

 

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