Table of Contents

Deborah Howard: Introduction: Music-making in Residenctiontial Space
1. The Visual Dimension
1: Patricia Fortini Brown: Seduction and Spirituality: The Ambiguous Roles of Music in Venetian Art
2: Flora Dennis: When is a Room a Music Room? Sounds, Spaces, and Objects in Non-courtly Italian Interiors
3: Tracy E. Cooper: The Place of Music in the Artist's Home
2. The Spatial Dimension
4: Sophie Pickford: Music in the French Domestic Interior (1500-1600)
5: Deborah Howard: The Role of Music in the Venetian Home in the Cinquecento
6: Rebecca Norris: Women on the Edge: The 'Saletta delle Dame' of the Palazzo Salvadego in Brescia
3. The Aural Dimension
7: Mimmo Peruffo: Balance on the Lute: The Role of the Strings
8: Michael Lowe: The Lute: An Intrument for All Seasons
9: Raf Orlowski: Assessing the Acoustic Performance of Small Music Rooms: A Short Introduction
4. The Intellectual Dimension
10: Giovanni Zanovello: 'With tempered notes, in the green hills and among rivers': Music, Learning, and the Symbolic Space of Recreation in the Manuscript Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Universitaria A.F.9.9
11: Guido Beltramini: Spaces for Music in Sixteenth-Century Paduan Noble Courts
12: Michael Markham: Caccini's Stages: Identity and Performance Space in the Late Cinquecento Courts
5. Courtly Contexts
13: Laura Moretti: Spaces for Musical Performance in the Este Court in Ferrara (c 1440-1540)
14: Iain Fenlon: Music Rooms in the Ducal Palace in Mantua: From Andrea Mantegna to Giovan Battista Bertani
15: Tessa Murdoch: Queen Christina of Sweden as a Patron of Music in Rome in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
6. The Development of Purpose-Built Spaces for Music
16: Davide Bonsi: The Acoustic Analysis of Palladio's Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza
17: Tarek Barreda: Music at Home: Spaces for Music in French Seventeenth-Century Residential Architecture
18: Arnaldo Morelli: Spaces for Musical Performance in Seventeenth-Century Roman Residences

Reviews

This is an excellent and much-needed book.
*Early Music,*