Anthology for Music in the Baroque

Wendy Heller is Professor of Music and Director of the Program in Italian Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice and articles published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Early Music, and Music & Letters. Heller’s writings have received awards from the American Musicological Society and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, and she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Brahms: The Four Symphonies, The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg 1903–1908, and German Modernism: Music and the Arts. He is the recipient of two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

• Claudio Monteverdi, "O Mirtillo" from Fifth Book of MadrigalsGiulio Caccini, "Dovrò dunque morire" from Le nuove musicheJohn Dowland, "Flow, my tears" from The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres Claudio Monteverdi, "Tu se' morta" and "Ahi, caso acerbo" from L’OrfeoClaudio Monteverdi, Lamento della ninfa, from Madrigali guerrieri et amorosiGirolamo Frescobaldi, Toccata No. 2, from Toccate e partite d'intavolatura di cimbalo, Book 1Dario Castello, Sonata No. 2 from Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book 2Johann Jacob Froberger, Suite in C major, FbWV 612, from Libro quarto di toccate, ricercari, capricci, allemande, gigue, courante, sarabandeClaudio Monteverdi, "Duo seraphim" from Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)Heinrich Schütz, "Fili mi, Absalon" SWV 269, from Symphoriae sacrae, Book 1Giacamo Carissimi, "Plorate colles" from JephteFrancesco Cavalli, "Infelice, ch'ascolto?" from GiasoneJean-Baptiste Lully, "Le perfide Renaud me fuit" from ArmideHenry Purcell, "What ho!" and "What power are thou" from King ArthurAntonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Viola d'amore and Lute, RV 540: Movement 1, AllegroBarbara Strozzi, "Begli occhi" from Cantate, ariette, Op. 3Arcangelo Corelli, Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 5, No. 9François Couperin, La ténébreuse and Les moissonneurs from Pièces de clavessinJean-Philippe Rameau, "A l'aspect de ce nuage" from PlatéeDieterich Buxtehude, Ad cor: Vulnerasti cor meum from Membra Jesu nosti, BuxWV 75Georg Philipp Telemann, Ouverture burlesque de Quixotte, TWV 55:G10Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Crucifixion Sonata from the Mystery SonatasGeorge Frideric Handel, Rinaldo, HWV 7a: Act 1, scenes 6, 7, and 9George Frideric Handel, Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, scene 3Johann Sebastian Bach, St. John Passion, BWV 245: Part 2, nos. 37-32Johann Sebastian Bach, Contrapuncti 1 and 7 from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080