Music in Arcadia : an unsettled tradition. The idiosyncrasies of chronology
The return of the shepherd
On the cusp between language and music
Theater. The boundaries of the genre
Singing like shepherds, singing like peasants
Ruzante's song and the rustic picturesque
Re-founding pastoral theater
The (female) performance of high culture
The madrigal. A pastoral society
Marenzio's utopia of the senses
Epilogue : Pastoral, opera, and the impossibility of tragedy.
