Eleanor Selfridge-Field

From Power to Pleasure: Venetian Opera in the Late Baroque. Comprises: 

• I: The Calendar of Venetian Opera [forthcoming from Stanford University Press]
• II. The "Theater of Marvels" [in progress]

The Music of Benedetto and Alessandro Marcello: A Thematic Catalogue with Commentary on the Composers,
Works, and Sources. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. 532 pp. 

Pallade Veneta: Writings on Music in Venetian Society, 1650-1750. Venice: Fondazione Levi, 1985. 417 pp. + xxxix. 

Venetian Instrumental Music from Gabrieli to Vivaldi. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, and New York: Praeger Publishers Inc., 1975. 317 pp. Rev. as:

• La musica strumentale da Gabrieli a Vivaldi, 2nd. ed. of above, tr. Franco Salvatorelli. Rome: ERI, 1980. 323 pp. plus recording [broadcast and discussion on RAI (Rome), June 1981]. 
• Venetian Instrumental Music from Gabrieli to Vivaldi, 3rd edn. Mineola NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1994. 432 pp. 

Talks and Articles: 

"His, Hers, Theirs: Wedding Pageants, Wedding Operas, and the Musical Politics of Match-Making," American Musicological Society, UCLA, 28 April 2001.

"Rites of Autumn, Winter, and Spring: Decoding the Calendar of Venetian Opera," Ninth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, Trinity College Dublin, 13 July 2000.  Also Annual Meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, Charlottesville, VA, 10 April 1999. Conference on Music, Ritual, and Magic, Turku, Finland, 7-10 September 2001.

"Horse Ballets in Baroque Italy," Berkeley Early Music Festival, 7 June 2000.

"The Invention of the Fortepiano as Intellectual History," International Symposium on the Early Piano, Shrine to Music Museum, Vermillion, SD, 5-8 May 2000.

"Celebrations of Power: The Performing Arts in Baroque Venice," Boston Handel and Haydn Society, 29 April 2000. [First given at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, for a symposium on the Glories of Venice exhibition, 1 April 1995.]

"Expanding Violin Technique in Vivaldi's Time," lecture-demo with Stanley Ritchie (Baroque violin), Boston Handel and Haydn Society, 27 April 2000.

"La guerra de' comici: Mantuan Comedy and Venetian Opera in c.1700," Recercare X (1998), 209-248.

"The War of the Spanish Succession: Consequences for Music in Venice," Austria 996-1996: Music in a Changing
Society, ed. Walter Kreyszig, I (Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller Universitäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung),
forthcoming. 

"Venetian Opera, French Criticism, and English Travels: The Case of Le Mercure de France and Joseph
Addison," Revue de musicologie 83/2 (1997), pp. 185-201. 

"Rovetta's Music for Holy Week," La Basilica di San Marco nell'età moderna, ed. Francesco Passadore e Franco
Rossi (Venice: Fondazione Levi, 1998), pp. 401-441.

"Venice: Musical Expression in an Era of Political Decline" in Music and Man (gen. ed. Stanley Sadie), 4: The
Late Baroque Era from the 1680s to 1740, ed. George J. Buelow (London: Macmillan, 1993), pp. 66-93.

"Vivaldi's Cello Sonatas" in Vivaldi vero e falso: Problemi di attribuzione, ed. Antonio Fanna and Michael Talbot
(Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1992), pp. 127-148. 

"Genre and Instrumentation in Italian Music, 1600-1670," Early Music, XIX/1 (1991), pp. 61-7. 

"The Baroque Era: Introduction" in Preformance Practice (The New Grove Handbooks in Music), II: Music after
1600, ed. Howard Mayer Brown and Stanley Sadie, 2 vols. (London: The Macmillan Press and New York: W.W.
Norton & Co., Ltd., 1989), II, pp. 3-19. 

"Vivaldi and Marcello: Clues to Provenance and Chronology" in Nuove studi vivaldiani: Edizione e cronologia
critica delle opere, ed. Antonio Fanna and Giovanni Morelli (Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1988), pp.
785-800. 

"Italian Oratorio and the Baroque Orchestra," Early Music, XVI/14 (1988), pp. 506-13. 

"Marcello's Music: Repertory vs. Reputation" in Benedetto Marcello: La sua opera e il suo tempo, ed. Claudio Madricardo e Franco Rossi (Florence: Olschki, 1988), pp. 205-22. 

"Music at the Pietà before Vivaldi," Early Music, XIV/3 (1986), pp. 373-86. 

"Opera Criticism and the Venetian Press" in Opera and Vivaldi: Reflections of a Changing World, ed. Michael
Collins and Elise Kirk. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984), pp. 179-90. 

"Dating Vivaldi's Venetian Operas," Informazioni e studi vivaldiani, 5 (1984), pp. 53-65. 

" 'Il teatro di meraviglie'--Venezia, la scena veneziana e l'origine della critica musicale nell'Età della
Stravanganza" in L'invenzione del gusto: Corelli e Vivaldi, ed. Giovanni Morelli. (Venice: Ricordi, 1982), pp. 136-41. 

"Fragments of Art Criticism from a Forgotten Venetian Journal," Arte veneta, XXXIV (1980).

"Ancora sul mito della rifondazione stilistica della musica nelle cantate mitologiche di Marcello," in Mitologia: convivenze di musica e mitologia, ed. Giovanni Morelli. (Venice: Edizioni «La Biennale di Venezia», 1979), pp. 101-6. 

"Venetian Instrumentalists in England: A Bassano Chronicle (1538-1660)," Studi musicali, XIII (1979), pp. 173-221. 

"Canzona and Sonata: Some Differences in Social Identity," International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology
of Music, IX/1 (1978), pp. 111-19. 

"Bassano and the Orchestra of St. Mark's," Early Music, IV/2 (1976), pp. 153-58.

"Beethoven and Greek Classicism," Journal of the History of Ideas, XXXIII/4 (1972), pp. 577-95. 

"Dario Castello: A Non-Existent Biography," Music and Letters, LIII/2 (1972). 

"Annotated Membership Lists of the Venetian Instrumentalists' Guild, 1672-1727," Royal Musical Association
Research Chronicle, No. 9 (1971), 1-52. Also "...Additional Annotations," Royal Musical Association Research
Chronicle, No. 12 (1975), pp. 152-5.