Claire Fontijn (PhD, Duke University) is Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor of Music at Wellesley College. In 2007, she won the Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Classical Music Biography from ASCAP/Deems Taylor for her monograph Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo (2006; 2013). Together with Susan Parisi, she edited Fiori Musicali: Liber Amicorum Alexander Silbiger (2010). Her second monograph is titled The Vision of Music of Saint Hildegard's Scivias-Synthesizing Image, Text, Notation, and Theory (2013). She has contributed chapters to books on topics ranging from the subjectivity of the Virgin Mary in music (Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh [eds.], Maternal Measures, 2000), to the chorales of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn (Anselm Hartinger, Christoph Wolff, and Peter Wollny [eds.], "Zu groß, zu unerreichbar"-Bach-Rezeption im Zeitalter Mendelssohns und Schumanns, 2007), to opera (Francesco Luisi [ed.], Francesco Buti tra Roma e Parigi, 2009). Her work has been supported by the American Musicological Society, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Table of Contents

List of Figures with Caption Texts

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

Notes from the Underground

Chapter 1. Secret Song and Music in the Visions of Hadewijch of Antwerp

Laurence Wuidar

Chapter 2. The Margin is the Message: The Changeable Mise-en-page as signal of Musicking in Nuns' Liturgical Books in Late Medieval Freiburg im Breisgau

Cynthia J. Cyrus

Chapter 3. Uncovering the Musical Life of San Donato in Polverosa: Sister Maria Diacinta Paulsanti's Processional

Jason Stoessel

Chapter 4. Shaping Female Identity and Agency through Seventeenth-Century French Sacred Songs

Catherine E. Gordon

Interlude

Chapter 5. Aesthetics of Performance in the Renaissance: Lessons from Noblewomen

Laura Jeppesen

Music for Royal Rivals

Chapter 6. Songs for Isabella d'Este

Anne MacNeil

Chapter 7. Lucrezia Borgia's Voice

Elizabeth Randell Upton

Serenissime Sirene

Chapter 8. Representations of Weeping in the Laments of Barbara Strozzi

Claire Fontijn

Chapter 9. A Delicate Cage: The Life and Times of Andriana della Tiorba

Eva Kuhn