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Notes on contributors; Editor's Preface; 1. Renaissance, Mannerism,Baroque Tim Carter; 2. The seventeenth-century musical 'work' John Butt; 3.Music in the marketplace Stephen Rose; 4. Music in New Worlds Victor AnandCoelho; 5. Music and the arts Barbara Russano Hanning; 6. Music and thesciences Penelope Gouk; 7. The search for musical meaning Tim Carter; 8.Power and display: music in court theatre Lois Rosow; 9. Mask and illusion:Italian opera after 1637 Tim Carter; 10. The church triumphant: music in theliturgy Noel O'Regan; 11. Devotion, piety and commemoration: sacred songs andoratorios Robert Kendrick; 12. Image and eloquence: secular song MargaretMurata; 13. Fantasy and craft: the solo instrumentalist Alexander Silbiger;14. Form and gesture: canzona, sonata and concerto Gregory Barnett;Appendices Stephen Rose; I. Chronology; II. Places and Institutions; III.Personalia; Index.