Susan Lewis Hammond Bücher

Focusing on the music of Europe and the Americas during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, this work combines cultural, historical, and musical analysis. It emphasizes performance aspects like notation, instruments, and techniques, while placing musical events within their broader intellectual, social, religious, and political contexts. In-depth discussions and critical analyses are facilitated, and a companion website offers access to scores and audio/visual performances, enriching the study of Baroque music.

This annotated bibliography serves as a comprehensive resource on madrigal scholarship, covering composition, production, and consumption. With 1,237 entries in multiple languages, it offers invaluable insights for scholars, students, teachers, librarians, and performers interested in this musical genre. The guide facilitates access to a wide range of research materials, making it an essential tool for anyone studying or performing madrigals.

Editing Music in Early Modern Germany argues that editors played a critical role in the transmission and reception of Italian music outside Italy. Like their counterparts in the world of classical learning, Renaissance music editors translated texts and reworked settings from Venetian publications, adapting them to the needs of northern audiences. Their role is most evident in the emergence of the anthology as the primary vehicle for the distribution of madrigals outside Italy. The book suggests that music editors defined the appropriation of Italian music through the same processes of adaptation, transformation and domestication evident in the broader reception of Italy north of the Alps. Through these studies, Susan Lewis Hammond's work reassesses the importance of northern Europe in the history of the madrigal and its printing.