Eroticism in Early Modern Music

Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Introduction: encoding the musical erotic, Laurie Stras
• The lascivious career of B-flat, Bonnie J. Blackburn
• Fa mi la mi so la : the erotic implications of solmization syllables, Leofranc Holford-Strevens
• Unmasking salacious subtexts in Lasso's Neapolitan songs, Donna G. Cardamone
• Imitating the rustic and revealing the noble: masculine power and music at the court of Ferrara, Melanie L. Marshall
• 'The Ways' ( I Modi ) of black-note erotica, Vanessa Blais-Tremblay
• 'Non e si denso velo': hidden and forbidden practice in Wert's Ottavo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (Venice: Gardano, 1586), Laurie Stras
• 'Lo Here I Burn': musical figurations and fantasies of male desire in early modern England, Linda Phyllis Austern
• Ovid's ironic gaze: voyeurism, rape, and male desire in Cavalli's La Calisto , Wendy Heller
• 'Precious' eroticism and hidden morality: salon culture and the mid-17th-century French air, Catherine Gordon-Seifert
• Eroticized mourning in Henry Purcell's Elegy for Mary II, O dive custos , Alan Howard
• Index.