... methods from folklore, musicology, and literary study. The formats of the ephemera, and their performative modes seemingly identify these expressions as impermanent; at the same time, examining them collectively, we recognize an ironic gesture for lasting universal human sentiment and meaning...

...,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 48 (1995): 423 – 84, and Ralph P. Locke's “Alien Adventures: Exoticism in Italian-Language Baroque Opera,” Musical Times 150.1909 (2009): 53 – 69. 15. Dean's count totals thirty-nine because he includes the three surviving operas from Germany...

...–12, 45, here quoting 11. 4.  Bryan White, “Letter from Aleppo: Dating the Chelsea School Performance of Dido and Aeneas,” Early Music 37 (2009): 417–28. 5.  Curtis Price, Letter to the Editor, Journal of the American Musicological Society 64 (2011): 267. 6.  Anne Cotterill...

... University The story of English music history is remarkably consistent in musicologi- cal scholarship.1 The standard narrative traces a continuous wave of crests and valleys. In caricature, it goes something like this: English music was not terribly impressive until the great flourishing...

... Battestin (Middletown: Wesleyan Univ., 1983), 189. 47. London Daily Post (18 April 1738), quoted by Suzanne Aspden, “ ‘Fam'd Handel Breathing, Tho’ Transformed to Stone’: The Composer as Monument,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 55 (2002): 39 – 90; the quotation is from 39...

... to the generality of our women not only sweeter throats than to those of other countries, but makes them likewise feel with more sensibility the charms of music” (1:296). Baretti’s acerbic response to Sharp reveals two things not yet well explored in historical or musicological scholarship. First...

... the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Gary Thomas, and Elizabeth Wood (London: Routledge, 1994), 155–203. 63.  See Thomas McGeary, “Handel and Homosexuality: Burlington House and Cannons Reconsidered,” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 136 (2011): 33–71. 64...