Pathbreaking study of a vast and intriguing repertoire: arrangements for keyboard instruments of songs, arias, and other vocal pieces, from the age William Byrd to that of Handel.

Introduction
Ballads Transformed
Arias Domesticated: The Ladys Entertainment and Other Early Eighteenth-Century Anthologies
With Their Symphonies: William Babell and The Ladys Entertainment Books 3 and 4
Opera Remix: Babell's Suits of 1717
After Babell: Arrangements for Ladies and Gentlemen
Afterthoughts
Appendix: The Ladys Banquet (Second Series): Contents, Concordances, and Dissemination
Notes
Bibliography
Index