Bonnie J. Blackburn - Eroticism in Early Modern Music

EROTICISM IN EARLY MODERN MUSIC

Edited by

BONNIE J. BLACKBURN
Oxford University, UK

and

LAURIE STRAS
University of Southampton, UK

ASHGATE

Bonnie J. Blackburn, Laurie Stras and the Contributors 2015

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Eroticism in early modern music / edited by Bonnie J. Blackburn and Laurie Stras.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-4333-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4724-4334-2 (ebook)

ISBN 978-1-4724-4335-9 (epub) 1. Sex in music. 2. Vocal music17th centuryHistory and criticism. 3. Vocal music16th centuryHistory and criticism. I. Blackburn, Bonnie J. II. Stras, Laurie.

ML1603.E76 2014

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Laurie Stras

Bonnie J. Blackburn

Leofranc Holford-Strevens

Donna G. Cardamone

Melanie L. Marshall

Vanessa Blais-Tremblay

Laurie Stras

Linda Phyllis Austern

Wendy Heller

Catherine Gordon-Seifert

Alan Howard

Linda Phyllis Austern is Associate Professor of Musicology at Northwestern University. Her primary specialty is Tudor and Stuart English musical culture, and she has published books with Gordon and Breach, Routledge, Indiana University Press, and Ashgate. Her articles have appeared in such journals as the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Music & Letters, Musical Quarterly, and Renaissance Quarterly, as well as a number of collections of essays.

Bonnie J. Blackburn, FBA, is a Member of the Faculty of Music at Oxford University and affiliated with Wolfson College, Oxford. She specializes in music and music theory of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with a particular interest in compositional practice, early printing, and notation. A collection of her essays has been published by Ashgate. She has edited the music of Johannes Lupi and two volumes for the New Josquin Edition. Together with Edward E. Lowinsky and Clement A. Miller she edited A Correspondence of Renaissance Musicians (Oxford University Press, 1991). She is also the author, together with Leofranc Holford-Strevens, of The Oxford Companion to the Year (Oxford University Press, 1999).

Vanessa Blais-Tremblay is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She is a 2012 recipient of the Doctoral Bombardier Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada. An earlier version of her chapter was presented at the 2013 American Musicological Society Conference and at the 2013 Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music. The core of her research focuses on issues of identity in the music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Donna G. Cardamone was Professor of Music at the University of Minnesota from 1969 to 2007. Her edition of Adrian Willaert and his Circle: Canzoni villanesche alla napolitana and villotte, Recent Researches in Music of the Renaissance, 30 (A-R Editions, 1978) was pioneering, and she contributed many articles on villanella, villanesca, and villotta composers to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (revised ed., Macmillan, 2001). In 2008 Ashgate published a collection of her articles in the Variorum Collected Studies Series, The Canzone villanesca alla napolitana: Social, Cultural and Historical Contexts. She died in 2009.

Catherine Gordon-Seifert, a full professor at Providence College in Providence, RI, earned a Masters degree in Harpsichord Performance from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Michigan. She received a French government bourse, sponsored by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, a National Endowment for the Arts grant (NEH), and was the winner of the 2005 American Musicological Societys Noah Greenberg Award to make a recording of French airs by Bertrand de Bacilly. Her book Music and the Language of Love: Seventeenth-Century French Airs was published by Indiana University Press in 2011.

Wendy Heller is Professor of Music and Director of the Program in Italian Studies at Princeton University. She has published extensively on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century opera from interdisciplinary perspectives, with particular emphasis on gender and sexuality, art history, and the classical tradition. Author of the award-winning Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Womens Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice (University of California Press, 2003), Heller has been a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, of the Villa I Tatti Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies, and was the Sylvan C. and Pamela Coleman Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum. Her most recent publications include Music in the Baroque and Anthology of Music in the Baroque (W. W. Norton, 2013). Current projects include Animating Ovid: Opera and the Metamorphoses of Antiquity in Early Modern Italy, critical editions of operas by Handel and Cavalli, and an edited collection of essays entitled Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera.

Leofranc Holford-Strevens is a classical scholar of wide interests, including Renaissance literature and musicology. Until his retirement in 2011 he was Consultant Scholar-Editor at Oxford University Press. He has written several articles on Latin poems set by fifteenth-century composers and a study of erotic matter in canti carnascialeschi. Together with Bonnie J. Blackburn he is the author of The Oxford Companion to the Year (Oxford University Press, 1999).

Alan Howard is Lecturer and Director of Studies in Music at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He specializes in the music of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries. He is a member of the Purcell Society Committee and a general editor of the Eccles Edition (A-R editions). His critical edition of Odes on the Death of Henry Purcell was recently published as Purcell Society Edition, Companion Series, vol. 5, and an interdisciplinary volume of essays, Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth-Century England (co-edited with Rebecca Herissone), was published by Boydell & Brewer in 2013.

Melanie L. Marshall