Books in the Harvard Publications in Music series

In this fifth volume of the series, Colin Slim provides a definitive edition of Massimo Puppieno, an opera from the middle years of Scarlatti's career. In his Introduction he discusses the opera and performance practices of the day.

Music in Time probes the temporality of music from many perspectives, in response to Christopher F. Hasty's groundbreaking Meter as Rhythm. The essays bridge the conventional divides between theory, history, ethnomusicology, aesthetics, performance practice, cognitive psychology, and dance studies.

La Statira was first performed in Rome in January 1690. The opera, with libretto by Cardinal Ottoboni, recounts the story of Alexander the Great's defeat of Darius, King of Persia, and his love for Statira, daughter of Darius. In his Introduction, William Holmes sketches the opera's history and discusses performance questions.