Edited by Carrie Churnside

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Preface - Carrie ChurnsidePart I. Historical and Geographical Transitions in German and English Instrumental Music
1. Duplex Genius: The French and Italian Musical Styles in the Instrumental Works of Johann Christoph Pez - Samantha Owens
2. Changing Concepts and Priorities: The German Consort Suite at the Start of the Eighteenth Century - Michael Robertson
3. French Dances and the Consort Dances of Matthew Locke and his English Contemporaries - Andrew Woolley
4. 'Italian sonatas in orchestral garb': Purcell and the 'reforme of musickal' Italiana' - Alan Howard Part II. Changing Notational and Performance Practices
5. Key Signatures before Keys: Conceptualising and Notating Pitch Relations in the Seventeenth Century - Gregory Barnett
6. Continuity and Change in Continuo Practice: The Case of Italian Opera - Peter HolmanPart III. Two Case Studies in Mid-Baroque Church Music
7. Musical Transitions at St. Mary's Church in Lübeck, 1630-1705 - Kerala J. Snyder
8. The Creation of a 'Bolognese Style': Maurizio Cazzati as the Driving Force Behind Evolving Musical Taste in Bologna (1657-1671) - Rodolfo Zitellini

Part IV. Transition in Italian Instrumental Music
9. On the Cusps of Stylistic Change: Vivaldi's Sonata RV 820 for Violin, Cello and Continuo and its Seventeenth-Century Roots - Michael Talbot
10. Naples at a Crossroads: Transformations in Neapolitan Instrumental Music at the turn of the Seventeenth Century - Guido OlivieriPart V. Change and Influence in Vocal Music
11. How Italian is the tragédieen musique of Quinault and Lully? - Michael Klaper
12. Euterpe's Revenge, or: The Italian Opera Aria c. 1660-1720 - Colin Timms
13. 'Ho procurato di seguitare ... i tre maggiori lumi della nostra professione': Homage and Modernity in Perti'sCantate morali e spirituali, op. 1 (1688) - Carrie Churnside
14. A Microcosm of Italian Cantata Composition in the 1690s: The Seven Settings of A voichel'accendeste by Francesco Maria Paglia - Rosalind Halton