Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Notes on Transcriptions, Terminology, and the Venetian Monetary System
Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Nuns of Venice and its Lagoon
Chapter 2 Public Liturgy: Professional Male Musicians in the Exterior Church
Chapter 3 Necessary Ornaments: Organs and Bells
Chapter 4 Transitions: Clothing Ceremonies, Professions, Consecrations, and Funerals
Chapter 5 Daily Offices and More: The Nuns in the Interior Church
Chapter 6 The Porous Grate: Teaching Music in Church and Parlor
Chapter 7 A Virtuous Recreation? Musical and Theatrical Entertainments for and by the Nuns
Chapter 8 Conclusions and Epilogue

Bibliography
Appendices
Appendix 1: Documents
Appendix 2: Brief Histories of the Nunneries of Venice and its Lagoon
Appendix 3: A Calendar of Religious Observances at Venetian Nunneries
Appendix 4: Religious Functions of Confraternities in Nunnery Churches
Appendix 5: Organs in Venetian Nunnery Churches
Appendix 6: References to Music at Monacations in Palade Veneta and the Gradenigo Diaries
Appendix 7: Inventory of Versetti for Venetian nuns
Appendix 8: Publications in Honor of Nuns (excluding monacations)
Appendix 9: Liturgical Books, Rules, and Ordini for Venetian Nunneries
Appendix 10: Mass Ordinaries in the San Lorenzo 1542 Processional
Appendix 11: Teachers of Nuns and Educande
Index

About the Author

Jonathan E. Glixon is Professor of Musicology, University Research Professor, and Provost's Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Kentucky. He received his PhD in Musicology from Princeton, and has published two books with Oxford University Press: Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807 (2003), and, with Beth L. Glixon, Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in
Seventeenth-Century Venice (2006).

Reviews

"the wealth of information contained in the volume does mean that it will surely prove useful to students and scholars of Venice, early modern convents, and early music specialists." -- Emilie K. M. Murphy, History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland
"Glixon includes examinations of ceremonies, consecrations, professions, funerals, organs and bells, the daily offices, the teaching of music, and some theatrical presentations by Venetian nuns. Eleven appendixes provide much of the documentation and research, from a calendar of religious observances to an inventory of versetti, liturgical books, and rules to mass ordinaries. In addition, the book has a companion website that offers auxiliary materials
such as maps, audio files, and editions of complete musical works referenced in the book. Musicologists and academic researchers of this time period will find this book of interest." --Choice