John Whenham
Title
Professor
Institution
University of Birmingham UK
Recent Publications
Giovanni Rovetta, Il secondo libro de madrigali (1640), ed. John Whenham (University of Birmingham, Archive of Seventeenth-Century Madrigals and Arias (ASCIMA)
“The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi” (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
“Perspectives on the Chronology of the First Decade of Public Opera At Venice,” Il Saggiatore musicale 11 (2004), 253–302.
“Monteverdi’s ‘Selva morale e[t] spirituale’ (1641): Some Anomalies Explored Through the Five Exemplars,” Music & Letters 95 (2014), 511–49.
“The Messa a quattro voci et salmi (1650) and Monteverdi’s Venetian Church Music,” Recercare 28 (2016), 89–120.
“La musica sacra veneziana di Monteverdi,” in "Monteverdi a San Marco: Venezia 1613-1643," ed. Rodolfo Baroncini and Marco Di Pasquale (Lucca: LIM, 2020), 273–313.
“The Musical Hinterland to Simonetti’s ‘Ghirlanda sacra’ (1625), in “Funzioni e dispositivi della musica antica: studi in memoria di Marco Di Pasquale”, ed. I. Cavallini, S. Lorenzetti, F. Passadore (Luca: LIM, 2026), 1-29.
“Barbara Strozzi, Nicolò Fontei and the Accademia degli Unisoni”, and “Sketching a Context for the Refrain Structures in Barbara Strozzi’s Opus I”, in “Barbara Strozzi in Context”, ed. Beth Glixon and Wendy Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2026), 132-144, 208-216.
“The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi” (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
“Perspectives on the Chronology of the First Decade of Public Opera At Venice,” Il Saggiatore musicale 11 (2004), 253–302.
“Monteverdi’s ‘Selva morale e[t] spirituale’ (1641): Some Anomalies Explored Through the Five Exemplars,” Music & Letters 95 (2014), 511–49.
“The Messa a quattro voci et salmi (1650) and Monteverdi’s Venetian Church Music,” Recercare 28 (2016), 89–120.
“La musica sacra veneziana di Monteverdi,” in "Monteverdi a San Marco: Venezia 1613-1643," ed. Rodolfo Baroncini and Marco Di Pasquale (Lucca: LIM, 2020), 273–313.
“The Musical Hinterland to Simonetti’s ‘Ghirlanda sacra’ (1625), in “Funzioni e dispositivi della musica antica: studi in memoria di Marco Di Pasquale”, ed. I. Cavallini, S. Lorenzetti, F. Passadore (Luca: LIM, 2026), 1-29.
“Barbara Strozzi, Nicolò Fontei and the Accademia degli Unisoni”, and “Sketching a Context for the Refrain Structures in Barbara Strozzi’s Opus I”, in “Barbara Strozzi in Context”, ed. Beth Glixon and Wendy Heller (Cambridge University Press, 2026), 132-144, 208-216.
Forthcoming Publications
Alessandro Grandi, "Cantade et arie. Libro terzo (1626) & Libro quarto (1629)," ed. John Whenham & Dennis Collins (Corpus mensurabilis musicae, 112/XVIII (American Institute of Musicology, forthcoming
An edition of the "Ghirlanda sacra (1625)" compiled by the San Marco castrato Leonardo Simonetti.
“From a Poem of Madrigals to a Drama of Madrigals and Arias: ‘Sidonio e Dorisbe (1642)’ by Nicolò Fontei and Francesco Melosio”, conference paper, Venice: Fondazione Levi, May 2025.
An edition of Giovanni Rovetta, "Madrigali concertati ... libro primo" )1629).
An edition of the "Ghirlanda sacra (1625)" compiled by the San Marco castrato Leonardo Simonetti.
“From a Poem of Madrigals to a Drama of Madrigals and Arias: ‘Sidonio e Dorisbe (1642)’ by Nicolò Fontei and Francesco Melosio”, conference paper, Venice: Fondazione Levi, May 2025.
An edition of Giovanni Rovetta, "Madrigali concertati ... libro primo" )1629).