This new edition has been extensively updated, and contains a new chapter covering the research of recent years. The preface to the first edition, by Igor Stravinsky is reprinted.

This unexpected encounter, as this book demonstrates, did not happen by chance but was due rather to a resurgence, a swelling tide.” —Pierre Boulez “Glenn Watkins brings together his twin passions: Gesualdo and the twentieth-century ...

Nine madrigals arranged for five viols, with text underlay in score and parts.

On the face of things, Mastro Don Gesualdo is a success.