Of the nineteen essays, originally published between 19 (apart from one still unpublished paper), eleven first appeared in Festschriften, conference reports, and multi-authored books, one only in German It is no accident that they all concern Italian music and thought, because this was the principal terrain of musical innovation in this period. The studies are focused on several of my central and abiding interests: the transition from strict counterpoint in the mid-sixteenth century to the experimentation with new, freer, idioms at the beginning of the seventeenth the search for verifiable scientific truth as a basis for music theory the ascendancy of the power of the verbal text in musical settings and the recovery and imitation of the musical culture of antiquity. Rather, it unites widely dispersed strands that beg to be drawn together into a coherent web.
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