Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music Publication Notice

Two new open-access publications from the Society for Seventeenth-Century
Music:

Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, vol. 31, no. 1,
https://sscm-jscm.org/jscm-issues/volume-31-no-1/. The list of contents appears below.

JSCM Instrumenta, vol. 7, The Choir Library of St. Mary’s in Lübeck, 1546–1674,
compiled by Kerala J. Snyder, https://clsm.sscm-jscm.org/. This database catalog covers the
contents of seventy sets of partbooks (sixty-nine printed and one manuscript) gathered by
the cantors of St. Mary’s church for use at services—some 2000 liturgical and
non-liturgical works by mainly German and Italian composers.

Contents of JSCM, vol. 31, no. 1:

Articles

Jeffrey Kurtzman and Licia Mari, Music and Worship in Mantua: Gonzaga Patronage and
Monteverdi’s Role as maestro di cappella; an Investigation and a Rebuttal to Roger
Bowers

Alana Mailes, “All kiend of Musicke: and Instriments of Warr”: British Travel
Writers in Seicento Venice

Book Reviews

Music, Dance and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange c. 1700: Michel Pignolet de
Montéclair and the Prince de Vaudémont. By Don Fader. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2021.
Reviewed by Margaret R. Butler.

Tuning and Temperament: Practice vs Science 1450–2020. By Patrizio Barbieri. Rome:
Gangemi Editore, 2023. Reviewed by Loren Ludwig.

Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology. By Bettina Varwig. New Material
Histories of Music. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Reviewed by Jacomien
Prins.