Women ruled Florence for the first time in its history from 28 February 1621 until 14 July 1628, when, during the seven-and-a-half years between the death of Grand Duke Cosimo II (1590-1621) and the eighteenth birthday of ...

This thesis compares eighteen different musical settings of the Petrarch sonnet "Tutto'l di piango; e poi la notte, quando." These settings include two unattributed recitation formulas from the Rocco Rodio Anthology and ...

This study is an annotated bibliography of selected literature on harpsichord studies published before 2011. It is intended to serve as a guide and as a reference manual for anyone researching the harpsichord or harpsichord ...

Manuel Rodrigues Coelho's Flores de musica (1620) holds a particularly important place in the history of Iberian keyboard music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As the first printed source of instrumental music ...