Monteverdi's Unruly Women examines the composer's madrigals and music dramas for what
they can tell us about the musical and cultural world of singing and the voice in early modern …

The subject of this study is itinerant performing and healing women. Underlying its structure
is a suggestion I have not seen expressed elsewhere, that the specific issue of early modern …

This dissertation examines the social and political culture of female singing in mid-
seventeenth-century Rome. At the beginning of the seventeenth century many influences …

This dissertation comprises a series of close readings of music written and performed in
intimate devotional contexts by nun composers Sulpitia Cesis, Alba Tressina, and Lucrezia …

Seventeenth-century Venetian operatic divas pioneered a new social identity for women
both onstage, as virtuosic opera singers, and as independent professionals in Venice. They …

The very fine ballets that have been performed by our duchess with her company with beau-
tiful concerto I will leave Signor Giliuollo to describe to you, since he has seen and enjoyed …

The Siren topos appears across most genres of Western music of the past three centuries.
Strictly speaking, it may be defined as a conspicuously wide upward leap within a melodic …

Sixteenth-century Italy is rich in considerations on the frightening power of song and
women's voices. Looking back to classical sources on sirens, enchantresses, and the power …

This article gives a close reading of the “avvisi di Roma”—unpublished archival documents
reporting on daily life in the city—that record the arrest in 1645 of famous Roman courtesan …

In recent years, scholarship has paid much attention to the presence of classical music in
pop culture media. The tradition of including music in various media is not new, however …