Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Mapping Musical Life in Cinquecento Venice / Katelijne Schiltz -- 1 San Marco / Giulio M. Ongaro -- 2 Music at Parish, Monastic, and Nunnery Churches and at Confraternities / Jonathan Glixon -- 3 Parish and Monastic Churches: Civic Custom and the Quotidian in the System of Institutional Patronage / Elena Quaranta -- 4 Music and the Academies of Venice and the Veneto / Iain Fenlon -- 5 Music, Ritual, and Festival: The Ceremonial Life of Venice / Iain Fenlon -- 6 Ridotti and Salons: Private Patronage / Rodolfo Baroncini -- 7 The Maestri di Cappella  / Francesco Passadore -- 8 Silent Voices: Professional Singers in Venice / Paolo Da Col -- 9 Instrumentalists and Instrument Makers before c. 1550 / Bonnie J. Blackburn -- 10 Instruments, Instrument Makers, and Instrumentalists in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century / Jeffrey Kurtzman -- 11 Music Printing and Publishing in Cinquecento Venice / Sherri Bishop -- 12 From Aaron to Zarlino: Music Theorists in the Social and Cultural Matrix of Sixteenth-Century Venice / Rebecca Edwards -- 13 Cori Spezzati in Composition and Sound / David Bryant -- 14 The Frottola in the Veneto / Giovanni Zanovello -- 15 Venetian Instrumental Music in the Sixteenth Century / Eleanor Selfridge-Field -- 16 Language, Style, and Subgenre in Venetian-Language Polyphony / Daniel Donnelly -- 17 Jewish Art Music in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Italy / Don Harrán -- 18 The ‘Other’ Coastal Area of Venice: Musical Ties with Istria and Dalmatia / Ivano Cavallini -- Selected Bibliography / Katelijne Schiltz -- General Index / Katelijne Schiltz.

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This book offers an overview of all facets of musical life in sixteenth-century Venice. It addresses the city’s institutions (churches, confraternities, and academies) against the background of public and private occasions of music making. Supported by a generous collection of archival, literary, and iconographical sources, it treats both ceremonial life in the Serenissima and private forms of patronage. The Companion also addresses the dense web of musical activity (from chapel masters and singers to instrumentalists and instrument makers to music printers and theorists) and the rich variety of styles and musical genres (the frottola, the madrigal, motets and masses, instrumental music, polychoral music, Venetian-language polyphony), broadening the geographical perspective beyond the Veneto to Istria and Dalmatia. Contributors are Rodolfo Baroncini, Sherri Bishop, Bonnie J. Blackburn, David Bryant, Ivano Cavallini, Paolo Da Col, Daniel Donnelly, Rebecca Edwards, Iain Fenlon, Jonathan Glixon, Don Harrán (†), Jeffrey Kurtzman, Giulio M. Ongaro, Francesco Passadore, Elena Quaranta, Katelijne Schiltz, Eleanor Selfridge-Field, and Giovanni Zanovello.

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