Eroticism in Early Modern Music

<p><em>Eroticism in Early Modern Music</em> contributes to a small but significant literature on music, sexuality, and sex in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Its chapters have grown from a long dialogue between a group of scholars, who employ a variety of different approaches to the repertoire: musical and visual analysis; archival and cultural history; gender studies; philology; and performance. By confronting musical, literary, and visual sources with historically situated analyses, the book shows how erotic life and sensibilities were encoded in musical works. <em>Eroticism in Early Modern Music</em> will be of value to scholars and students of early modern European history and culture, and more widely to a readership interested in the history of eroticism and sexuality.</p>