Many of the following listed items have been used in class. Those on MUH Reserve in the UCF Library are so marked; otherwise, the item is in the general stacks of the library. Please remember that your classmates may need access to these items, too. Try not to monopolize items, and return unused items to the UCF Library as soon as you are finisehd with them.

Leo Treitler / Oliver Strunk, Source Readings in Music History, Rev. Ed. [UCF : ML160 .S89 1998] (A general collection of writings about music throughout history that will include extended passages often only excerpted in Grout/Palisca or other sources.) See the following items of interest for this course:

• Giovanni Maria Artusi, [excerpt from] Artusi, or Of the Imperfections of Modern Music [attack on Monteverdi's "Cruda Amarilli"]
• Claudio and Giulo Cesare Monteverdi, "Explanation of the Letter Printed in the Fifth Book of Madrigals" [Monteverdi's response to Artusi]
• Pietro de' Bardi, Letter to Giovanni Battista Doni [description of the Florentine Camerata and its activities]
• Giulio Caccini, Dedication to Euridice
• Giulio Caccini, From Preface to Le nuove musiche [descriptive essay from one of the first published collections of Monodies.]
• Lodovico Viadana, Preface to One Hundred Sacred Concertos, op. 12
• Agostino Agazzari, Of Playing Upon a Bass with All Instruments

James M. Saslow, The Medici Wedding of 1589 : Florentine Festival as Theatrum Mundi [UCF: DG 738.21 .S37 1996]

Claude V. Palisca, ed., The Florentine Camerata : Documentary Studies and Translations [UCF: MT 5.5 .F63 1989]

F.T. Arnold, The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass... (2 vols.) [UCF : ML 442 .A7 1965 v.1-2]

Giulia Nuti, The Performance of Italian Basso Continuo... [UCF: ML 442 .N87 2007]

NB Only includes supplementary items. For textbook anthology items, see Recordings for Schulenburg, Anthology (1st ed.).

Giulio Caccini, Le nuove musiche (selected pieces from this collection, including "Amarilli mia bella") [UCF Media CD: M 3.1 .C23 N86 1990]

Giulio Caccini, Nuove musiche (selected pieces from this collection) [UCF Media: M 3.1 .C23 N865 2005]

Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini, L'Euridice [UCF: M2. R238 v. 36-37]

Giulio Caccini, Le nuove musiche [UCF: M 2 .R238 v. 9]

Last updated on 26 June 2008