| Contents |
Acknowledgments and introduction / Claire Fontijn -- Tribute to Alexander Silbiger / Georgia Cowart -- Part 1. Frescobaldi. A new Frescobaldi document / Frederick Hammond / Étenne Darbellay -- Frescobaldi's Fioretti: testimony from a missing book / Christine Jeanneret -- Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini in Villa: what aesthetics can teach us about musical patronage in the early Modern period / Claudio Annibaldi -- Part 2. Vocal music. Another Monteverdi problem (and why it still matters) / Tim Carter -- Monteverdi's Mass of Thanksgiving: Da capo / Jeffrey Kurtzman -- Stealing for the Duke: Girolamo Belli's I furti / Giuseppe Gerbino -- "Sotto la disciplina del Signor Cavalli": works by Strozzi and Bembo / Claire Fontijn -- Part 3. The transition from modality to tonality. Key signatures, fugal answer, and the emergence of the major mode: a case study in G major / Michael R. Dodds -- The meaning of Tuono: tonality, musical style, and the modes in Settecento theory / Gregory R. Barnett -- Part 4. Keyboard music. The allemandes of Louis Couperin: songs without words / Catherine Gordon-Seifert -- Crossing the Rhine with Froberger: suites, symbols, and seventeenth-century musical autobiography / David Schulenberg -- Seventeenth-century harpsichord music from the house of Thurn und Taxis / Bruce Gustafson -- Fifty-two fugues from 1618, an essay on genre / David Fuller -- Part 5. Music of the eighteenth century. Hearing the viola da gamba in "Komm, süsses Kreuz" / Jonathan Gibson -- New cadenzas from eighteenth-century Berlin / Mary Oleskiewicz -- From Opera seria to French Grand motet: thoughts on a Récit from Mondonville's Venite exultemus / Jean-Paul C. Montagnier -- Part 6. Newfound sources in the United States. "Becoming useful": the making of Confederate women composers / Candace Bailey -- Well-tempered insight: Bernardus Boekelman's analytical edition of selected fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier / Joel Sheveloff -- Music that escaped: transcriptions of two songs of praise from a surviving, but still hidden synagogue repertory / Daniel S. Katz. |
| Abstract |
The twenty essays in this volume honor Alexander Silbiger, distinguished scholar, performer, and teacher, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. The contributors of the essays are friends, colleagues, and former students. An eminent authority on Baroque keyboard music, the honoree is the author and editor of influential editions, monographs, and articles on music in the Baroque era, including the monumental 17th Century Keyboard Music (28 volumes), Keyboard Music Before 1700, and Frescobaldi Studies, this last the fruits of the International Frescobaldi Conference that he organized. For more than thirty years, the honoree taught in departments of music, first at Brandeis University and the University of Wisconsin, then from 1984 until his retirement in 2002 at Duke University. The collection of essays is divided into six subject areas that represent distinct research interests of the honoree: Part 1: Frescobaldi; Part 2: Vocal Music; Part 3: The Transition from Modality to Tonality; Part 4: Keyboard Music; Part 5: Music of the Eighteenth Century; and Part 6: Newfound Sources in the United States. The volume opens with an Introduction by Claire Fontijn and a Tribute on behalf of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music by Georgia Cowart. Together, these trace Professor Silbiger's career broadly, from the completion of his first doctorate in Engineering Mechanics in 1961 to the present, and offer a portrait of him as scholar, performer, teacher, and mentor. |
