Susan McClary is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (2002), Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (California, 2000), and Georges Bizet: Carmen (1992).

"This revelatory book distills thirty years of reflection on the sixteenth-century madrigal with an inimitable mixture of empathy, vivacity, conceptual boldness, and downright wisdom. Susan McClary renovates our understanding of the genre in the most fundamental terms and in the process rewrites a key chapter in the history of early modern culture. McClary gives us a different sixteenth-century Europe than the one we thought we knew. By asking what we can learn about the era from its music, and not just the other way around, she unveils a world of luxuriant introspection and complex self-division that we can actually learn to hear in the body of music for which she is now our most eloquent advocate." - Lawrence Kramer, author of Musical Meaning"

• List of Examples Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Cultural Work of the Madrigal 2 Night and Deceit: Verdelot's Machiavelli 3 The Desiring Subject, or Subject to Desire: Arcadelt 4 Radical Inwardness: Willaert's Musica nova 5 The Prisonhouse of Mode: Cipriano de Rore 6 The Coney Island of the Madrigal: Wert and Marenzio 7 The Luxury of Solipsism: Gesualdo 8 The Mirtillo/Amarilli Controversy: Monteverdi 9 I modi Appendix: Examples Index

Susan McClary is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (2002), Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (California, 2000), and Georges Bizet: Carmen (1992).

"This revelatory book distills thirty years of reflection on the sixteenth-century madrigal with an inimitable mixture of empathy, vivacity, conceptual boldness, and downright wisdom. Susan McClary renovates our understanding of the genre in the most fundamental terms and in the process rewrites a key chapter in the history of early modern culture. McClary gives us a different sixteenth-century Europe than the one we thought we knew. By asking what we can learn about the era from its music, and not just the other way around, she unveils a world of luxuriant introspection and complex self-division that we can actually learn to hear in the body of music for which she is now our most eloquent advocate." - Lawrence Kramer, author of Musical Meaning"

• List of Examples Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Cultural Work of the Madrigal 2 Night and Deceit: Verdelot's Machiavelli 3 The Desiring Subject, or Subject to Desire: Arcadelt 4 Radical Inwardness: Willaert's Musica nova 5 The Prisonhouse of Mode: Cipriano de Rore 6 The Coney Island of the Madrigal: Wert and Marenzio 7 The Luxury of Solipsism: Gesualdo 8 The Mirtillo/Amarilli Controversy: Monteverdi 9 I modi Appendix: Examples Index

Susan McClary is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (2002), Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (California, 2000), and Georges Bizet: Carmen (1992).

"This revelatory book distills thirty years of reflection on the sixteenth-century madrigal with an inimitable mixture of empathy, vivacity, conceptual boldness, and downright wisdom. Susan McClary renovates our understanding of the genre in the most fundamental terms and in the process rewrites a key chapter in the history of early modern culture. McClary gives us a different sixteenth-century Europe than the one we thought we knew. By asking what we can learn about the era from its music, and not just the other way around, she unveils a world of luxuriant introspection and complex self-division that we can actually learn to hear in the body of music for which she is now our most eloquent advocate." - Lawrence Kramer, author of Musical Meaning"

• List of Examples Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Cultural Work of the Madrigal 2 Night and Deceit: Verdelot's Machiavelli 3 The Desiring Subject, or Subject to Desire: Arcadelt 4 Radical Inwardness: Willaert's Musica nova 5 The Prisonhouse of Mode: Cipriano de Rore 6 The Coney Island of the Madrigal: Wert and Marenzio 7 The Luxury of Solipsism: Gesualdo 8 The Mirtillo/Amarilli Controversy: Monteverdi 9 I modi Appendix: Examples Index