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Music and Meaning: Studies in Music History and the Neighbouring Disciplines. ByWarren and Ursula Kirkendale (Historiae Musicae Cultores, 113.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2007. [xi, 643p. ISBN-13 9788822256591. [Euro]66.] Music examples, illustrations, indexes.
This hefty book consists of twenty previously published essays. They are arranged in quasi-circular motion from six by Warren Kirkendale (W.K.) to seven by his wife Ursula (U.K.) to another seven by W.K, as if to illustrate the notion of circulatio discussed in the first of them. The topics range from sixteenth-century motets and instrumental music to the madrigal, the beginnings of opera, French ...