Music in the Seventeenth Century Book

Italian versification: a note Steven Botterill;

Part I. The Early Decades:

1. The seventeenth-century madrigal;
2. Giovan Battista Marino and the poesia per musica;
3. Music for solo voice;
4. Claudio Monteverdi before 1620;
5. The 'crisis' of the seventeenth century;
6. 'Concerto';
7. Monteverdi after 1620;
8. The classification of styles;
9. Scientific thought and musical theory;
10. Theory and practice;
11. Musical publicity;
12. Music publishing and music collecting;
13. Social condition of the musician;
14. Instrumental and dance music;

Part III. Sacred Vocal Music:
15. Music in the Catholic liturgy;
16. Catholic devotional music;
17. The music of the lutheran Church: Heinrich Schütz;
18. Sacred music as music of the State: France and England;

Part IV. Opera:
19. The historiography of opera;
20. Opera before 1637;
21. The Venetian theatres;
22. The diffusion of opera in Italy;
23. Formal and dramatic convention; the lament;
24. Opera in German-speaking lands: Vienna and Hamburg;
25. The tragédie lyrique: Jean-Baptiste Lully;
26. Theatrical music in England and Spain.