Bibliography (Classified)
Analysis specifically on Barbara Strozzi
Article
“La Bella Cantatrice: I Ritratti di Leonora Barone e Barbara Strozzi a Confronto"
Musica, Scienza e idee nella Serenissima durante il Seicento. Atti del convegno internazionale, Venezia, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin 13-15 dicembre 1993, ed. Francesco Passaore and Franco Rossi; p. 285-294. Venice: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, 1996.Music Score
Women Composers: music through the ages
New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. ISBN 0816105634Article
“More on the Life and Death of Barbara Strozzi"
The Musical Quarterly, 83/1; 1999; p. 134-141.Article
“New Light on the Life and Career of Barbara Strozzi"
The Musical Quarterly, 81/2, 1997; p. 311-335.Book
Le Musiche di Barbara Strozzi
Tesi di laurea, U. degli Studi di Pavia, Scuola di Paleografia e Filologia Musicale, 1987. Non-doctoral thesis.Book
Women composers: the lost tradition found
Article
“Intent and Intertextuality in Barbara Strozzi’s Sacred Music”
Recercare: Rivista per lo Studio e la Practica della Musica Antica, 14 (2003): 65-98.Book
A critical modern edition of Barbara Strozzi's I sacri musicali affetti (op. 5, 1655)
Manhattan School of Music, DMA Thesis, 1995.Notes: Transcription with figured bc, translations and notes. Cannot be copied, must be viewed at library.Article
“Barbara Strozzi, Appresso ai molli argenti (1659), Consolation Amid Barbarous Misfortune,"
In Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers, ed. Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft, Oxford University Press, 2018, 74-105.Article
“Barbara Strozzi: A Documentary Perspective"
In The Journal of Singing, 58/5, 2002Notes: The numbered catalog of Strozzi's works, a complete discography and a classified bibliography of original sources, secondary sources, analyses.Article
“Barbara Strozzi: From Madrigal to Cantata"
In The Journal of Singing, 58/5, 2002.Book
Barbara Strozzi and The Pleasures of Euterpe
Ph.D. Diss., University of Connecticut, 2004Notes: Includes editions of some works of Opus 7.Article
“A View of Barbara Strozzi"
IAWM Journal, Volume 15, No.2, 2009Article
“Barbara Strozzi"
In Annäherung IV: an seiben Komponistinnen. Kassel: Furore-Verlag, . ISBN 3980132668Book
“ ‘On lightest leaves do I fly': Redemption and the Renewal of Identity in Barbara Strozzi's Sacri musicali affetti (1655)"
Ph.D. dissertation, Catholic University of America, 2015Article
“Strozzi, Barbara", New Grove
In New Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie; p. 294. London: Macmillan, 1980.Article
“Strozzi, Barbara", New Grove
New Grove Encyclopedia of Women in Music, Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel, eds. New York: Macmillan, 1995.Article
“Barbara Strozzi, virtuosissima cantatrice: the Composer's Voice"
JAMS, XXXI, 1978; p. 241-281Article
“The Voice of Barbara Strozzi"
In Women Making Music, ed. J.M. Bowers and J. Tick; p. 168-190. Champagne-Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1986. ISBN 252012046Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: I Sacri Musicali Affetti [Facsimile], Women Composers Series
Women Composers Series #21. New York: Da Capo Press, 1988. ISBN 306761955Article
“Baroque Women (1): Barbara Strozzi"
Goldberg, v. 1, Nov. 1997; p. 30-31.- Revista Electronica de Musicolgia 11. <http://www.rem.ufpr.br/REMv11/02/02-scarinci-strozzi.html>
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Safo Novella
Algol Editora, 2009. www.algol.com.brIncludes CD of music.Article
“Barbara Strozzi: [Op 3.01]" in Music of the Baroque: An Anthology of Scores.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 019512233XArticle
“Herzensfestungen und Luftschlösser: Zur Ikonographie militärischer Architekturen im Liebeskrieg bei Cipriano de Rore, Nicolò Fontei, Claudio Monteverdi und Barbara Strozzi,"
Musik Theorie: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft. XXI/2 (2006): Musik und Bild: 101-129.Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [6.04] Dessistete omai, pensieri; [8.03] Hor che Apollo è a Teti in seno"
In Music by women for study and analysis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993.Book
Barbara Strozzi's Arie, Op. 8 (1664): An Edition and Commentary
Stanford University, 1992. D.M.A. Thesis.Notes: Includes modern transcriptions of all the Opus 8 works, voice and unfigured basso continuo. Commentary, Italian texts and English translations. "L'Astratto" [8.04] and "Hor che Apollo" [8.03] as published in the G.K. Hall and Hildegard editions, are taken from this thesis.Music Score
Italian Cantata in the seventeenth century, v. 5.
New York & London: Garland, 1986. ISBN 824088794facsimile with introductory notes- “Reflections on Barbara Strozzi.” EMAG, the Magazine of Early Music America, vol. 25, no. 1, January 2019, pp. 30-34.
- Gordon, Bonnie. “She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music; The composer Barbara Strozzi, who turns 400 this year, is still celebrated for vocal music of desire and passion.” The New York Times, Section AR, p. 8, Dec. 22, 2019.Print version has headline: “She Quickened the Heartbeat of Venice.”
- Pecknold, Sara M. “Relics, Processions and the Sounding of Affections: Barbara Strozzi, the Archduchess of Innsbruck, and Saint Anthony of Padua,” in Yale Journal of Music & Religion, vol. 2, no. 2, article 5.
Article
“Representations of Weeping in the Laments of Barbara Strozzi"
Fontijn, Claire. “‘Representations of Weeping in the Laments of Barbara Strozzi.’” Uncovering Music of Early European Women (1250–1750), edited by Claire Fontijn, Routledge, New York and London, NY, 2020, pp. 145–170.Article
“ 'Sotto la disciplina del Signor Cavalli': Works by Strozzi and Bembo"
Fontijn, Claire. “ ‘Sotto la disciplina del Signor Cavalli’: Works by Strozzi and Bembo,” Fiori Musicali: Liber Amicorum Alexander Silbiger, edited by Claire Fontijn and Susan Parisi, Sterling Heights, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2010. pp 165–183- Pecknold, Sarah M., "Madre d’Amore: Redemptive Motherhood in Barbara Strozzi’s Sacri musicali affetti (1655)" in Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music vol 27, no. 2 (2021).
- Sullivan, Ryan Wilson, "Barbara Strozzi: Ironic Gender Bending in 17th-century Venice", paper submitted for MUTH 6750: Seminar in Classical Music, University of North Texas, 2017.There are factual mistakes and unsupported assumptions in this paper, misquotes, and much reliance on speculative ideas in a chapter by Anna Beer. It is a student paper from MUTH6750 at University of North Texas, a Seminar in Classical Music.
- Lester, CN. “Representing Strozzi: A Critical and Personal Re-Evaluation of Her Life and Music.” University of Huddersfield, Final Thesis, 1 Oct. 2019, http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/35488/.Includes an English translation of Satire by Dr Gregorio Bevilacqua
Article
“ “Barbara di Santa Sofia" and “Il Prete Genovese": On the identity of a portrait by Bernardo Strozzi"
Art Bulletin, 63/2, 1981; p. 249-258Book
Poesie per il Primo libro de' madrigali di Barbara Strozzi.
Firenze: Studio Editoriale Fiorentino, 1999. ISBN 8887048185
Editions of Strozzi Works
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Barbara Strozzi: [1.01] Proemio dell'opera; [1.18] Al Battitor di Bronzo della sua crudellissima Dama; [1.02] Canto di bella bocca; [1.08] Dialogo in partenza, Il Primo Libro de Madrigali für zwei Stimmen und Basso Continuo.
Blankenburg, Elke M. Barbara Strozzi: [1.01] Proemio dell'opera; [1.18] Al Battitor di Bronzo della sua crudellissima Dama; [1.02] Canto di bella bocca; [1.08] Dialogo in partenza, Il Primo Libro de Madrigali für zwei Stimmen und Basso Continuo. with keyboard realizations. Kassel: Furore-Verlag, 1993. ISBN 500125310Book
Ariette di Francesca Caccini e Barbara Strozzi
Bonaventura, Arnaldo. Ariette di Francesca Caccini e Barbara Strozzi. Rome: Casa Editrice Musica, 1930.Includes Chiamata à nuovi amori [2.07] and Noiosa Lontananza [2.13]. These are the same as the editions in Nuova musica.Article
“Chiamata à nuovi amori [2.07]"
Nuova musica, XI. 1906; p. 101-102Article
“Noiosa Lontananza [2.13]"
Nuova musica, XII. 1907; p. 209-210Article
“Un' arietta di Barbara Strozzi"
Nuova musica, X. 1905; p. 61Music Score
Performance editions of various works
Prima La Musica Publishing, 2008.Includes "[5.12] Nascente Maria," "[5.03] Gaude Virgo," "[5.07] O Maria," "[5.11] Salve Regina," and "[6.17]Sospira, Respira.Music Score
Performance editions of various works
Privately published; contact the authorMusic Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [2.05] La fanciulletta semplice", in Five Early Italian Songs.
In Five Early Italian Songs. Huntsville, TX: Classical Vocal Reprints, 1987.Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [2.20] Amor dormiglione", in Classic Italian Songs for School and Studio, vol. 3.
Bryn Mawr, PA: Oliver Ditson, 1968Music Score
Women Composers: music through the ages
New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. ISBN 0816105634Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Hor Che Apollo [8.03]
IMSLP, n.d.Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [2.05] La fanciulletta semplice; [2.11] La Travagliata"
In La Flora; Arie Antiche Italiane, vol. 2. Copenhagen: Wilhelm Hansen, 1949.Book
A critical modern edition of Barbara Strozzi's I sacri musicali affetti (op. 5, 1655)
Manhattan School of Music, DMA Thesis, 1995.Notes: Transcription with figured bc, translations and notes. Cannot be copied, must be viewed at library.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: L'Astratto
Kassel: Furore-Verlag, 1996. ISBN 500125549Notes: These editions have been superseded by completely revised and new editions by the author for Cor Donato Editions, 2016.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi:14 Arien aus opus II für Sopran oder Tenor und Basso continuo
Kassel: Furore-Verlag, 1996. ISBN 500125617.Notes: These editions have been superseded by completely revised and new editions by the author for Cor Donato Editions, 2014.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: 5 Madrigals for 2-5 voices
Bryn Mawr, PA: Hildegard Publishing Company, 1998.Notes: Includes 1.13 L'amante modesto; 1.14 Il Contrasto de' cinque sensi; 1.15 Priego ad amore; 1.20 Vecchio Amante; 1.24 L'amante timido eccitato. Also available as individual pieces in choral octavo. with keyboard realizations.Music Score
La mia donna perchè canta [Opus 2.25]
Privately published.Performance edition PDF fileMusic Score
Non pavento io di te [Opus 6.02]
Privately publishedPerformance edition PDF fileMusic Score
Sospira, respira [Opus 6.17]
Privately publishedPerformance edition PDF fileMusic Score
Non ti doler mio cor [Opus 6.13]
Privately publishedPerformance edition PDF fileMusic Score
Lagrime mie [Opus 7.04]
Privately publishedPerformance edition PDF fileMusic Score
Mi fa rider la speranza [Opus 7.10]
Privately publishedPerformance edition PDF fileArticle
“Barbara Strozzi: [7.04] Lamento:Lagrime mie, a che vi trattenete"
In The Solo Song 1580-1730; p. 81ff. New York: Norton, 1973.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Erumpebat [5.06]
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2012original key for contralto; transposed key for mezzo-soprano; transposed key for soprano.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Havete Torto [WoO3]
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2019Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: In Medio Maris [5.02]
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2012original key for contralto; transposed key for mezzo-soprano; transposed key for sopranoMusic Score
Barbara Strozzi: Miei Pensieri [6.05]
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2012Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Presso un Ruscello Algente [WoO2]
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2012Original key for soprano; transposed key for mezzo-soprano.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Salve Sancta Caro [5.04]
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2012Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Tradimento [7.09]
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2012original key for soprano; transposed key for mezzo-sopranoMusic Score
Barbara Strozzi: 5 Madrigals for 2-3 voices
Fayetteville, AR: ClarNan Editions, 2003with keyboard realizations. Notes: Includes 1.04 "Le tre grazie a Venere", 1.09 :Godere e tacere:, 1.12 "Godere in gioventù", 1.21 "Dal pianto de gli amanti scherniti", 1.23 "La Vittoria".Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Cantata a S. Anna [5.01]
Fayetteville, AR: ClarNan Editions, 2003Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Fin che tu spiri [703.]
Fayetteville, AR: ClarNan Editions, 2005with keyboard realizations.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Quis dabit mihi [WoO1]. For ATB, bc
Fayetteville, AR: ClarNan Editions, 2004Also an edition for SSA, bc, 2009.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: 9 Ariettas
Fayetteville, AR: ClarNan Editions, 2010With keyboard realizations. Also in transposed keys for low voice Notes: Includes Op2-Chiamata a Nuovi Amori; Begl’occhi, bel seno; Noiosa lontananza; Op3-Amor non si fugge; Con male nuove, non si puo cantare; Op6- Non ti doler mio cor; Rissolvetemi, pensieri; Op7-Pensaci ben mio core; Basta così, v'ho inteso!Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [2.04] Costume de grandi; [2.08] La crudele, che non sente, non vede, non parla; [2.20] Amor Dormiglione"
In Arie Italiane: dal XIII al XVIII secolo, per basso-baritono/ elaborazione a cura di Raffaele Mingardo. Milan: Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, 1976.Music Score
Performance editions
Privately published.Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [2.20] Amor dormiglione"
In Piccolo Album di Musica Antica. Milan: G. Ricordi, 1892.Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: 1.11] Con le belle non ci vuol fretta. SATB with continuo"
In Nine Centuries of music by Women Series. New York: Broude Bros., 1978.Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [1.03] Consiglio amoroso: for SAB with Continuo"
In Nine Centuries of music by Women Series. New York: Broude Bros., 1978.Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [2.07] Chiamata a nuovi amori"
In Antiche Gemme Italiane. Milan: Ricordi, 1949.Music Score
“Quis Dabit Mihi” [WoO1] in Sacra Corona (Venice 1656), Baroque Era series
Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2015. ISBN 978-0-89579-805-3Music Score
A Performing edition of selected arias from Barbara Strozzi's Ariette a voce sola, Opus 6
University of Georgia, 2000. DMA thesis. Also Bryn Mawr, PA: Hildegard Publishing Company, 2001.with keyboard realizations. (Catalog number 02117) Notes: includes [6.05] Miei pensieri, e che bramate?; [6.07] Amore è bandito; [6.09] Lilla mia, non ti doler; [6.12] Lilla dici ch'io non t'amo; [6.13] Non ti doler, mio cor; [6.16] Chi brama in amore.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: I Sacri Musicali Affetti [Facsimile], Women Composers Series
Women Composers Series #21. New York: Da Capo Press, 1988. ISBN 306761955Music Score
Strozzi: [Op 7.01] Sino alla morte; [Op 7.04] Lamento - Lagrime Mie; [Op 8.04] L'Astratto
West Yorkshire, UK: The Green Man Press, 2009with keyboard realizations.Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [6.04] Dessistete omai, pensieri; [8.03] Hor che Apollo è a Teti in seno"
In Music by women for study and analysis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993.Book
Barbara Strozzi's Arie, Op. 8 (1664): An Edition and Commentary
Stanford University, 1992. D.M.A. Thesis.Notes: Includes modern transcriptions of all the Opus 8 works, voice and unfigured basso continuo. Commentary, Italian texts and English translations. "L'Astratto" [8.04] and "Hor che Apollo" [8.03] as published in the G.K. Hall and Hildegard editions, are taken from this thesis.Article
“Barbara Strozzi: [8.04] L'Astratto; [8.03] Hor che Apollo"
In Women Composers: music through the ages, ed. M. Schleifer and S. Glickman, v. 2; p. 56-97. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. ISBN 0816105634Notes: also excerpted in edition, Bryn Mawr, Hildegard Publishing, 1998.Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [8.08] Non c'è più fede"
In Antiche Cantate d'Amore. Bologna: F. Bongiovanni, 1912, 1920.Notes: NYPL Microfilm. DC, RQM, non-lending.Other libs.Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi:[6.07] Amor è bandito"
In Eleganti Canzoni ed Arie Italiane del Secolo XVII. Saggi Antichi ed inediti della Musica Vocale Italiana. Milano: G. Ricordi & C. 1894. pp 33-35.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: [2.01] Donna di Maestà
American Recorder Society. ISSN 0003-724Notes: Arrangement for recorder and piano.Music Score
Spesso per entro il petto
Kimball, Carol, ed. "Spesso per entro il petto" in Women Composers: A Heritage of Song. Hal Leonard Vocal Library, 2004.Music Score
Che si può fare?
Peiretti, Rita, editor. "Che si può fare?" in A Voce Sola, Arie E Cantate Del Barocco Italiano. Rugginenti Editore, 1992.Music Score
L'Amante Bugiardo
in 30 Italian Songs and Arias of the 17th and 18th centuries, Editions Peters. One volume for Medium High, one for Medium Low.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Complete Works, Madrigali, Opus 1
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2018.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Complete Works, Cantate, Ariette, e Duetti, Opus 2
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2014.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Complete Works, Cantate, Opus 3
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2019Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Complete Works, Sacri Musicali Affetti, Opus 5
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2016Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Complete Works, Ariette a Voce Sola, Opus 6
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2015.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Complete Works, Diporti di Euterpe, Opus 7
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2015.Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Complete Works, Arie, Opus 8
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2016Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: Complete Works, Works Without Opus Number
Los Alamos, NM: Cor Donato Editions, 2019.Manuscript
“Barbara Strozzi: [6.11] Rissolvetevi o pensieri"
Manuscript, ca. 1669. US: LAuc (William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles), fC697M4.Notes: Regio was a composer and lutenist. This MS includes voice part and baroque guitar tablature.- Nauheim, Claudia, et al., editors. Sonata Seconda sopra “Che Si Può Fare”: nach B. Strozzi und Pandolfi Mealli. Gebrüder Stark Musikverlag, Leipzig, 2006.
General Analyses
Book
Women Musicians of Venice
Berdes, Jane L. Women Musicians of Venice; p. 237. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 198162367Book
Almanacco delle virtuose, primedonne, compositrici e musiciste d'Italia: dall' A.D. 177 ai giorni nostri
Adkins Chiti, Patricia. Almanacco delle virtuose, primedonne, compositrici e musiciste d'Italia: dall' A.D. 177 ai giorni nostri. Novara: Istituto geografico DeAgostini, 1991.Book
Giovanni Widmann (1570-1634): mercante del fondaco dei tedeschi
Bertollo, Giovanni Battista. Giovanni Widmann (1570-1634): mercante del fondaco dei tedeschi. Venezia: tesi di laurea: anno accademico 1970-1971. Università degli studi di Padova, facolta di magistero, Istituto di storia moderna.Detailed information on the Vidman family.Article
“Le donne italiane e la musica"
Rivista Musicale Italiana, XXXII, 1925; p. 519-534Article
“The Emergence of Women Composers in Italy, 1566-1700"
Women Making Music, ed. J.M. Bowers and J. Tick; p. 116-167Book
Historical Anthology of Music by Women
Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1986Article
“La Bella Cantatrice: I Ritratti di Leonora Barone e Barbara Strozzi a Confronto"
Musica, Scienza e idee nella Serenissima durante il Seicento. Atti del convegno internazionale, Venezia, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin 13-15 dicembre 1993, ed. Francesco Passaore and Franco Rossi; p. 285-294. Venice: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, 1996.Article
“Musiche e muse: Compositrici nel Rinascimento (Music and muses: Women composers in the Renaissance)"
In Musica senza aggettivi: studi per Fedele d'Amico, a cura di Agostino Ziino. Quaderni della Rivista italiana di musicologia. Firenze: Olschki, 1991, p. 21-30. RILM 92-02016-ae.Article
“Monteverdi Circles"
Early Music, 22 (Aug 1994), p. 513-514.Book
City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.Notes: includes information on the Strozzi family before Giulio.Music Score
Women Composers: music through the ages
New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. ISBN 0816105634Article
“Circolazione letteraria e circolazione musicale del madrigale : il caso G.B. Strozzi"
In Il madrigale tra Cinque e Seicento, Problemi E Prospettive. Serie Di Musica E Spettacolo. ed. Paolo Fabbri. Bologna, Società editrice il Mulino, 1988.Article
“Musical Women of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"
In Women and music: a history, ed. K. Pendle; p. 61-63. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1991. ISBN 253343216Book
Women composers: the lost tradition found
Article
“Opus primum in Venedig: Traditionen des Vokalsatzes 1590-1650." Freiburger Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, Bd. 4.
Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1995. ISBN 3890072941.Book
Five centuries of music in Venice
New York: Macmillan/Schirmer, 1991, pp. 67, 98. ISBN 28713184Notes: This book accompanies a series of videotapes from Films for the Humanities & Sciences. Video Vol 2 has information on Strozzi, with a performance of "Amor è bandito" 6.07. OCLC# 34299856Book
The Italian madrigal, 1620-1655
Ph.D. thesis, Kings College, University of London, 1989.Notes: microfiches at Washington University, MO.Article
“Il collezionismo e la committenza artistica della famiglia Widmann, patrizi Veneziani, dal seicento all'ottocento"
In Istituto Veneto di scienze, lettere, ed arti. Memori, classe di scienze morali, lettere ed arti, vol 41, fasc 3. Venezia: Istituto Veneto, 1989.Book
Storia delle accademie d'Italia
vol. ii, p. 224ff; vol. iv, p. 140-141; vol. v, p. 396-397. Bologna: L. Cappelli, 1930.Book
A Parallel Study of Solo Vocal Works by Women Composers: Comparison to Works from the Standard Repertory.
University of Minnesota dissertation, 1993Article
“Courtesans, Muses, or Musicians: Professional Women Musicians in Sixteenth-Century Italy"
In Women Making Music, ed. J.M. Bowers and J. Tick; p. 90-115. Champagne-Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1986. ISBN 252012046Book
Women music makers: an introduction to women composers
Book
Women and music: a history
Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1991. ISBN 253343216Book
Stilprobleme der italienischen Monodie
Prague: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1965Book
I Widmann: le vicende di una famiglia veneziana dal Cinquecento all' Ottocento
Venezia: Centro tedesco di studi veneziana, 1980.Book
Geschichte der weltlichen Solokantate
p. 81f. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1914/1955.Book
Lodovico Widmann (1719-1764): Un patrizio veneziano “alla moda" a meta del settecento.
Tesi di laurea, Università di Padova, 1995-96.Article
"Barbara Strozzi"
Beer, Anna, "Barbara Strozzi" in Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music. London: Oneworld Publications, 2016. pp. 53-88There are interesting and unsupported assumptions in this chapter, as well as some questionable statements. Not a reliable source for all information.
Musical and Historical analysis
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Women Musicians of Venice
Berdes, Jane L. Women Musicians of Venice; p. 237. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 198162367Article
“Musiche e muse: Compositrici nel Rinascimento (Music and muses: Women composers in the Renaissance)"
In Musica senza aggettivi: studi per Fedele d'Amico, a cura di Agostino Ziino. Quaderni della Rivista italiana di musicologia. Firenze: Olschki, 1991, p. 21-30. RILM 92-02016-ae.Music Score
Women Composers: music through the ages
New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. ISBN 0816105634Article
“More on the Life and Death of Barbara Strozzi"
The Musical Quarterly, 83/1; 1999; p. 134-141.Article
“New Light on the Life and Career of Barbara Strozzi"
The Musical Quarterly, 81/2, 1997; p. 311-335.Book
Women composers: the lost tradition found
Book
Five centuries of music in Venice
New York: Macmillan/Schirmer, 1991, pp. 67, 98. ISBN 28713184Notes: This book accompanies a series of videotapes from Films for the Humanities & Sciences. Video Vol 2 has information on Strozzi, with a performance of "Amor è bandito" 6.07. OCLC# 34299856Article
“Il collezionismo e la committenza artistica della famiglia Widmann, patrizi Veneziani, dal seicento all'ottocento"
In Istituto Veneto di scienze, lettere, ed arti. Memori, classe di scienze morali, lettere ed arti, vol 41, fasc 3. Venezia: Istituto Veneto, 1989.Book
Ex ignoto notus: bibliografia delle opere a stampa del principe degli incogniti: Giovan Francesco Loredano.
Padova: Il poligrafo 2000. Ricerche (Univ. degli studi di Venezia. Facoltà di lettere a filosofia 8)Book
L'Accademia degli Incogniti di Giovan Francesco Loredan
Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1998.Book
A Parallel Study of Solo Vocal Works by Women Composers: Comparison to Works from the Standard Repertory.
University of Minnesota dissertation, 1993Book
Women music makers: an introduction to women composers
Book
“ ‘On lightest leaves do I fly': Redemption and the Renewal of Identity in Barbara Strozzi's Sacri musicali affetti (1655)"
Ph.D. dissertation, Catholic University of America, 2015Book
Women and music: a history
Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1991. ISBN 253343216Book
Stilprobleme der italienischen Monodie
Prague: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1965Music Score
“Quis Dabit Mihi” [WoO1] in Sacra Corona (Venice 1656), Baroque Era series
Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2015. ISBN 978-0-89579-805-3Book
Opera in 17th Century Venice
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. ISBN 520068084Book
I Widmann: le vicende di una famiglia veneziana dal Cinquecento all' Ottocento
Venezia: Centro tedesco di studi veneziana, 1980.Book
Les femmes et la création musicale: les compositrices européennes du Moyen-Age au milieu du XXe siècle
Book
Geschichte der weltlichen Solokantate
p. 81f. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1914/1955.Article
“Secular Vocal Music of the Later Seventeenth Century", in Music of the Baroque.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 195122321.Article
“Herzensfestungen und Luftschlösser: Zur Ikonographie militärischer Architekturen im Liebeskrieg bei Cipriano de Rore, Nicolò Fontei, Claudio Monteverdi und Barbara Strozzi,"
Musik Theorie: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft. XXI/2 (2006): Musik und Bild: 101-129.Article
“Strozzi, Giulio", New Grove
New Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. London: 2001. vol 24, pp 607-609.- “Reflections on Barbara Strozzi.” EMAG, the Magazine of Early Music America, vol. 25, no. 1, January 2019, pp. 30-34.
- Gordon, Bonnie. “She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music; The composer Barbara Strozzi, who turns 400 this year, is still celebrated for vocal music of desire and passion.” The New York Times, Section AR, p. 8, Dec. 22, 2019.Print version has headline: “She Quickened the Heartbeat of Venice.”
- Pecknold, Sara M. “Relics, Processions and the Sounding of Affections: Barbara Strozzi, the Archduchess of Innsbruck, and Saint Anthony of Padua,” in Yale Journal of Music & Religion, vol. 2, no. 2, article 5.
Article
Italian Cantatas in Lüneburg and Matthias Weckmann's Musical Nachlaß; Proceedings of the Weckmann Symposium
Italian Cantatas in Lüneburg and Matthias Weckmann's Musical Nachlaß; Proceedings of the Weckmann Symposium. (1993), p.159-183.
- Pecknold, Sarah M., "Madre d’Amore: Redemptive Motherhood in Barbara Strozzi’s Sacri musicali affetti (1655)" in Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music vol 27, no. 2 (2021).
- Sullivan, Ryan Wilson, "Barbara Strozzi: Ironic Gender Bending in 17th-century Venice", paper submitted for MUTH 6750: Seminar in Classical Music, University of North Texas, 2017.There are factual mistakes and unsupported assumptions in this paper, misquotes, and much reliance on speculative ideas in a chapter by Anna Beer. It is a student paper from MUTH6750 at University of North Texas, a Seminar in Classical Music.
Article
“La Bella Cantatrice: I Ritratti di Leonora Barone e Barbara Strozzi a Confronto"
Musica, Scienza e idee nella Serenissima durante il Seicento. Atti del convegno internazionale, Venezia, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin 13-15 dicembre 1993, ed. Francesco Passaore and Franco Rossi; p. 285-294. Venice: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, 1996.Book
Le Musiche di Barbara Strozzi
Tesi di laurea, U. degli Studi di Pavia, Scuola di Paleografia e Filologia Musicale, 1987. Non-doctoral thesis.Article
“Intent and Intertextuality in Barbara Strozzi’s Sacred Music”
Recercare: Rivista per lo Studio e la Practica della Musica Antica, 14 (2003): 65-98.Book
A critical modern edition of Barbara Strozzi's I sacri musicali affetti (op. 5, 1655)
Manhattan School of Music, DMA Thesis, 1995.Notes: Transcription with figured bc, translations and notes. Cannot be copied, must be viewed at library.Article
“Barbara Strozzi, Appresso ai molli argenti (1659), Consolation Amid Barbarous Misfortune,"
In Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers, ed. Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft, Oxford University Press, 2018, 74-105.Article
“Barbara Strozzi: A Documentary Perspective"
In The Journal of Singing, 58/5, 2002Notes: The numbered catalog of Strozzi's works, a complete discography and a classified bibliography of original sources, secondary sources, analyses.Article
“Barbara Strozzi: From Madrigal to Cantata"
In The Journal of Singing, 58/5, 2002.Book
Barbara Strozzi and The Pleasures of Euterpe
Ph.D. Diss., University of Connecticut, 2004Notes: Includes editions of some works of Opus 7.Article
“A View of Barbara Strozzi"
IAWM Journal, Volume 15, No.2, 2009Article
“Barbara Strozzi"
In Annäherung IV: an seiben Komponistinnen. Kassel: Furore-Verlag, . ISBN 3980132668Article
“Strozzi, Barbara", New Grove
In New Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie; p. 294. London: Macmillan, 1980.Article
“Strozzi, Barbara", New Grove
New Grove Encyclopedia of Women in Music, Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel, eds. New York: Macmillan, 1995.Article
“Barbara Strozzi, virtuosissima cantatrice: the Composer's Voice"
JAMS, XXXI, 1978; p. 241-281Article
“The Voice of Barbara Strozzi"
In Women Making Music, ed. J.M. Bowers and J. Tick; p. 168-190. Champagne-Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1986. ISBN 252012046Music Score
Barbara Strozzi: I Sacri Musicali Affetti [Facsimile], Women Composers Series
Women Composers Series #21. New York: Da Capo Press, 1988. ISBN 306761955Article
“Baroque Women (1): Barbara Strozzi"
Goldberg, v. 1, Nov. 1997; p. 30-31.- Revista Electronica de Musicolgia 11. <http://www.rem.ufpr.br/REMv11/02/02-scarinci-strozzi.html>
Book
Safo Novella
Algol Editora, 2009. www.algol.com.brIncludes CD of music.Article
“Barbara Strozzi: [Op 3.01]" in Music of the Baroque: An Anthology of Scores.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 019512233XMusic Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [6.04] Dessistete omai, pensieri; [8.03] Hor che Apollo è a Teti in seno"
In Music by women for study and analysis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993.Book
Barbara Strozzi's Arie, Op. 8 (1664): An Edition and Commentary
Stanford University, 1992. D.M.A. Thesis.Notes: Includes modern transcriptions of all the Opus 8 works, voice and unfigured basso continuo. Commentary, Italian texts and English translations. "L'Astratto" [8.04] and "Hor che Apollo" [8.03] as published in the G.K. Hall and Hildegard editions, are taken from this thesis.Music Score
Italian Cantata in the seventeenth century, v. 5.
New York & London: Garland, 1986. ISBN 824088794facsimile with introductory notesArticle
“Representations of Weeping in the Laments of Barbara Strozzi"
Fontijn, Claire. “‘Representations of Weeping in the Laments of Barbara Strozzi.’” Uncovering Music of Early European Women (1250–1750), edited by Claire Fontijn, Routledge, New York and London, NY, 2020, pp. 145–170.Article
“ 'Sotto la disciplina del Signor Cavalli': Works by Strozzi and Bembo"
Fontijn, Claire. “ ‘Sotto la disciplina del Signor Cavalli’: Works by Strozzi and Bembo,” Fiori Musicali: Liber Amicorum Alexander Silbiger, edited by Claire Fontijn and Susan Parisi, Sterling Heights, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2010. pp 165–183- Lester, CN. “Representing Strozzi: A Critical and Personal Re-Evaluation of Her Life and Music.” University of Huddersfield, Final Thesis, 1 Oct. 2019, http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/35488/.Includes an English translation of Satire by Dr Gregorio Bevilacqua
Article
“ “Barbara di Santa Sofia" and “Il Prete Genovese": On the identity of a portrait by Bernardo Strozzi"
Art Bulletin, 63/2, 1981; p. 249-258Book
Poesie per il Primo libro de' madrigali di Barbara Strozzi.
Firenze: Studio Editoriale Fiorentino, 1999. ISBN 8887048185
Primary Sources
Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: Quis dabit mihi" [WoO1]
In Sacra Corona; Motetti a due e tre voci di diversi eccelentissimi autori moderni. Venice: 1656.Notes: US: LC. GB: Och. Microfilm: LC, Harvard, UNC-ChapelHill.Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [6.11] Rissolvetevi pensieri, [6.16] Chi brama in amore"
In Arie a Voce Sola di Diversi Auttori. Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1656. RISM 1656(4)Notes: BritLib microfilm, Harvard . Reprint Facsimile available from Cornetto-Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, catalog number FES5, ISBN M501000913.Music Score
Op. 1: Il primo libro de madrigali
Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1644.Notes: Locations: I: Fn (Mus.Ant. 104). I: Bc (BB366). [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 2002. ISMN M-50100-121-7, Catalog number FES8.Music Score
Op. 2: Cantate, ariette e duetti.
Venice: Gardano, 1651.Notes: Locations I: Fn (Mus.Ant. 30); GB: Och. [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 2000. ISBN M-50100-120-0, catalog number FES7.Music Score
Op. 3: Cantate e ariette
Venice: Gardano, 1654.Notes: Locations: GB: Lbl. [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 2000. ISBN M-50100-119-4, catalog number FES6.Music Score
Op. 5: Sacri musicali affetti
Venice: Gardano, 1655.Notes: Location PL: WRu. [Facsimile with introduction by Ellen Rosand] New York: Da Capo Press, 1988. ISBN 306761955 [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 1998. ISBN M-50100-067-8, catalog number FES1.Music Score
Op. 6: Ariette a voce sola.
Venice: Gardano, 1657.Notes: Location I: Bc (BB367) [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 1999. ISBN M-50100-087-6, catalog number FES2.Music Score
Op. 7: Diporti di Euterpe, overo Cantate e ariette a voce sola.
Venice: Gardano, 1659.Notes: Location I: Bc (BB368). [Facsimile], Piero Mioli, ed. Florence: Archivum Musicum, Cantata Barocca #3, 1980. [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 1999. ISBN M-50100-081-5, catalog number FES3.Music Score
Op. 8: Arie a voce sola
Venice: Gardano, 1664.Notes: Location I: Baf (Fondo Antico 1 68); I: Bc (BB422) (manuscript version) [Facsimile] Bologna: Antiquae Musicae Italicae Studiosi: Monumenta Veneta. Forni reprint, 1970. [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 2000. ISBN M-50100-126-2, catalog number FES4.Manuscript
Presso un Ruscello Algente. [WoO2]
Manuscript. Venice, Museo Correr, busta 2.35. Notes: "missing the end of the piece" until Dr. Magner found the two parts that were separated.Manuscript
Havete torto [WoO3]
Manuscript. D: Kl, MS Collection of cantatas, fol. 34, 1681Manuscript
Un amante doglioso [WoO4]
Manuscript. D: Kl, MS Collection of cantatas, fol. 34, 1681Music Score
Italian Cantata in the seventeenth century, v. 5.
New York & London: Garland, 1986. ISBN 824088794facsimile with introductory notesBook
Poesie per il Primo libro de' madrigali di Barbara Strozzi.
Firenze: Studio Editoriale Fiorentino, 1999. ISBN 8887048185
Reviews of Music editions
Article
Music Reviews, “Time Travel 1651-2009": Strozzi, Barbara (1619-1677), Nine Ariettas"
Journal of Singing, 67/1(September/October 2010), p. 105Article
“Review: Barbara Strozzi, Cantate, ariete a una, due, e tre voci, opus 3. Edited by Gail Archer"
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music. http://www.sscm.harvard.edu/jscm/v5/no1/Hill.html: 1999. ISBN 1089-747XArticle
“Review: Barbara Strozzi, L'Astratto. Barbara Strozzi, 14 Arien aus opus II"
Continuo Review online. http://continuo.com/reviews/strozzi.htmArticle
“Review: Editions of 17th-century song" (on the Kolb and Archer editions)
Early Music, 27/2, 1999; p. 329-330.Article
“Review: Arie Antiche, Maria Bayo, soprano"
Fanfare, 27 August, 1999- The Age, 2000. www.theage.com.au
Secondary Source Materials Contemporary with Strozzi
Manuscript
Satire, e altre raccolte per l'Accademia de gli Unisoni in casa di Giulio Strozzi
Accademia degli Unisoni. Satire, e altre raccolte per l'Accademia de gli Unisoni in casa di Giulio Strozzi. Manuscript, Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana. I: Vnm Cl.X, Cod. CXV = 7193.Manuscript
Veglie de' Signori Unisoni
Accademia degli Unisoni. Veglie de' Signori Unisoni. (Veglia Prima; Veglia Seconda; Veglia Terza di Signori Accademici Unisoni) Venice: Sarzina, 1638. Located at Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana. I: Vnm 119 C 240.Book
Giulio Strozzi: Poesie per il Primo libro de' madrigali di Barbara Strozzi
Aurigi, Anna ed.. Giulio Strozzi:Poesie per il Primo libro de' madrigali di Barbara Strozzi. Firenze: Studio Editoriale Fiorentino, 1999. ISBN 8887048185Music Score
Bizzarrie Poetiche poste in musica. A 1.2.3 voci
Venice: Bartholomeo Magni, 1635.Notes: Dedicated to Giovanni Paolo Vidman. RISM F1485. GB: Och. I: microfilmMusic Score
Bizzarrie Poetiche posta in musica, Libro Secondo. A uno, doi, e tre voci
Venice: Bartolomeo Magni, 1636Notes: Dedicated to Giorgio Nani. RISM F1486. GB: Och. I: microfilm.; also Fond. G. Cini: negative photo print.Music Score
Bizzarrie Poetiche posta in musica, Libro Terzo. A uno, doi, e tre voci
Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1639Notes: Dedicated to Claudio Du Houssazy. RISM F1488. I: BOBook
Le glorie de gli Incogniti
Venice: apresso Francesco Valvasense, 1647.See particularly pp. 280 ff on Giulio Strozzi Notes: located I: Vnm 69 C 239 or 388 D 116. (microfilm?) at UCBerk, UCArl, Yale, Clark, Harvard, WashU, Duke, URochester, Rice, UIowa, JohnHopkins, UMich, UOxford.Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [6.11] Rissolvetevi pensieri, [6.16] Chi brama in amore"
In Arie a Voce Sola di Diversi Auttori. Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1656. RISM 1656(4)Notes: BritLib microfilm, Harvard . Reprint Facsimile available from Cornetto-Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, catalog number FES5, ISBN M501000913.Book
La Contesa del Canto, e delle Lagrime
In G.F. Loredano Bizzarrie academiche. Venice: Sarzina, 1638.Notes: location I: Vnm 69 C 239 and 210 C 089. Venice: Correr. Torrefranca - S.A.H.I.334. English translation as Academical discourses (London, 1664) p. 99ff.- Lester, CN. “Representing Strozzi: A Critical and Personal Re-Evaluation of Her Life and Music.” University of Huddersfield, Final Thesis, 1 Oct. 2019, http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/35488/.Includes an English translation of Satire by Dr Gregorio Bevilacqua
Manuscript
“Barbara Strozzi: [6.11] Rissolvetevi o pensieri"
Manuscript, ca. 1669. US: LAuc (William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles), fC697M4.Notes: Regio was a composer and lutenist. This MS includes voice part and baroque guitar tablature.
Works with Opus Number
Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: [6.11] Rissolvetevi pensieri, [6.16] Chi brama in amore"
In Arie a Voce Sola di Diversi Auttori. Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1656. RISM 1656(4)Notes: BritLib microfilm, Harvard . Reprint Facsimile available from Cornetto-Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, catalog number FES5, ISBN M501000913.Music Score
Op. 1: Il primo libro de madrigali
Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1644.Notes: Locations: I: Fn (Mus.Ant. 104). I: Bc (BB366). [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 2002. ISMN M-50100-121-7, Catalog number FES8.Music Score
Op. 2: Cantate, ariette e duetti.
Venice: Gardano, 1651.Notes: Locations I: Fn (Mus.Ant. 30); GB: Och. [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 2000. ISBN M-50100-120-0, catalog number FES7.Music Score
Op. 3: Cantate e ariette
Venice: Gardano, 1654.Notes: Locations: GB: Lbl. [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 2000. ISBN M-50100-119-4, catalog number FES6.Music Score
Op. 5: Sacri musicali affetti
Venice: Gardano, 1655.Notes: Location PL: WRu. [Facsimile with introduction by Ellen Rosand] New York: Da Capo Press, 1988. ISBN 306761955 [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 1998. ISBN M-50100-067-8, catalog number FES1.Music Score
Op. 6: Ariette a voce sola.
Venice: Gardano, 1657.Notes: Location I: Bc (BB367) [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 1999. ISBN M-50100-087-6, catalog number FES2.Music Score
Op. 7: Diporti di Euterpe, overo Cantate e ariette a voce sola.
Venice: Gardano, 1659.Notes: Location I: Bc (BB368). [Facsimile], Piero Mioli, ed. Florence: Archivum Musicum, Cantata Barocca #3, 1980. [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 1999. ISBN M-50100-081-5, catalog number FES3.Music Score
Op. 8: Arie a voce sola
Venice: Gardano, 1664.Notes: Location I: Baf (Fondo Antico 1 68); I: Bc (BB422) (manuscript version) [Facsimile] Bologna: Antiquae Musicae Italicae Studiosi: Monumenta Veneta. Forni reprint, 1970. [Facsimile] Stuttgart: Cornetto-Verlag, 2000. ISBN M-50100-126-2, catalog number FES4.Music Score
Italian Cantata in the seventeenth century, v. 5.
New York & London: Garland, 1986. ISBN 824088794facsimile with introductory notes
Works Without Opus Number
Music Score
“Barbara Strozzi: Quis dabit mihi" [WoO1]
In Sacra Corona; Motetti a due e tre voci di diversi eccelentissimi autori moderni. Venice: 1656.Notes: US: LC. GB: Och. Microfilm: LC, Harvard, UNC-ChapelHill.Manuscript
Presso un Ruscello Algente. [WoO2]
Manuscript. Venice, Museo Correr, busta 2.35. Notes: "missing the end of the piece" until Dr. Magner found the two parts that were separated.Manuscript
Havete torto [WoO3]
Manuscript. D: Kl, MS Collection of cantatas, fol. 34, 1681Manuscript
Un amante doglioso [WoO4]
Manuscript. D: Kl, MS Collection of cantatas, fol. 34, 1681