Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1628) occupies a unique place in Renaissance music culture: he was the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition. In the field of instrumental music, he established the trio sonata as a standard combination of voices for 17th-century chamber music and developed the sonata into a vehicle of virtuoso display. In his vocal works, he wrote music to texts of some of the most fashionable poets of his day, including Battista Guarini, Gabri...

• Introduction
• 1:, The Man
• 2:, The Publications
• 3:, Italian Vocal Music
• 4:, Instrumental Music
• 5:, From Composition to Performance
• 6:, Music for the Theatre
• 7:, `The Songs of Solomon'
• Epilogue From Conflict to Consonance
• Appendix - Works
• Glossary of Musical Terms for the General Reader
• Bibliography
• Index