Fiori Musicali: Liber amicorum Alexander Silbiger (Detroit Monographs in Musicology)

The twenty essays in this volume honor Alexander Silbiger, distinguished scholar, performer, and teacher, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. The contributors of the essays are friends, colleagues, and former students. The collection of essays is divided into six subject areas that represent research interests of the honoree: Part 1: Frescobaldi; Part 2: Vocal Music; Part 3: The Transition from Modality to Tonality; Part 4: Keyboard Music; Part 5: Music of the Eighteenth Century; and Part 6: Newfound Sources in the United States.The volume opens with an Introduction by Claire Fontijn, and a Tribute on behalf of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music by Georgia Cowart. Together, these trace Professor Silbiger's career broadly, from the completion of his first doctorate in Engineering Mechanics in 1961 to the present, and offer a portrait of him as scholar, performer, teacher, and mentor.