Includes bibliographical references and index.

Songs of Shakespeare’s England / Craig Monson -- Love’s new voice : Italian monodic song / Barbara Russano Hanning -- The rise of Italian chamber music / Mary Oleskiewicz -- Music for church and community : Buxtehude in Lübeck / Kerala J. Snyder -- The arts and royal extravagance : music at the French court / George B. Stauffer -- The songs of Solomon (Rossi) as the search for history / Michael Beckerman -- Usurping the place of the muses : Barbara Strozzi and the female composer in seventeenth-century Italy / Wendy Heller -- The baroque guitar : players, paintings, patrons, and the public / Victor Coelho -- Seventeenth-century keyboard music in northern Europe : Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands / David Schulenberg -- Bach and the bounds of originality / George B. Stauffer -- Bach’s St. John Passion : can we really still hear the work-- and which one? / Daniel R. Melamed -- Music in the "New World" : the baroque in Mexico and Brazil / Gerard Béhague.