Vient de paraître : Journal of the Seventeenth-Century Music, vol. 32, no 1 (2026), sous la dir. Lois Rosow.
« In this issue we visit Venice, Milan, and London. Jennifer Williams Brown identifies the house where Cavalli lived and wrote his operas; she uses the documentary record to imagine its floor plan, furnishings, and activity, and ruminates poetically on the parallels between compositional and architectural process. Michael Carlson considers Aquilino Coppini’s contrafacts of Monteverdi’s madrigals; he argues both for Coppini’s unique approach to the genre and for the likelihood that Monteverdi and Coppini, together, designed Coppini’s third book as a vehicle for improving their professional circumstances. Nicholas Field examines the tension in late seventeenth-century England between love of Italian music and anti-Catholicism; he argues that the well-educated classes coped by giving musical activity the veneer of scientific progress serving the national interest.
Also in this issue: The editorial board has decided to introduce a new series of reviews, “Belatedly Noted.” Our aim is to recognize important books that, for whatever reason, slipped through our book review process when they were new. Two of us have produced the first such offering, a look at three indispensable reference works on French music of the period. See the editorial note there for information on how you might contribute to the series.
Finally, I honor the memory of Jennifer Williams Brown, who presented the oral version of her article in 2024, at the annual conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, held at Princeton University. By then, ALS had stolen her voice, so a colleague read the paper on her behalf. We gave Jennifer a standing ovation, both in recognition of her impressive scholarship and in support of a dear friend facing a cruel disease. Jennifer died while the article was in press. As I made final edits, I found poignancy in the first-person focus of the article, often in present tense. Rest in peace, Jennifer ».
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