First published in 2005, this title provides extensive knowledge on seventeenth-century music.

Contributors explore new aspects of composition and performance in this comprehensive examination of the repertory, institutions, performers, composers, and soc

The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborativ

Examines musical life in the seventeenth century, a period of profound change in the history of music.

In this book, Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states—desire, divine rapture, and