Early Music, Vol. 44, No. 3 August 2016 http://em.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/3?etoc EDITORIAL Helen Deeming, Alan Howard, and Stephen Rose ARTICLES The Romance of Alexander Jeremy Montagu Biblical commentary in the Old Hispanic liturgy: a Passiontide case study Emma Hornby and Rebecca Maloy Roman claviorgans and ‘table organs with a spinetta on top’, 1567–1753 Patrizio Barbieri Thoughts on Marais’s second thoughts Ronald Broude and Mary Cyr Muted violins from Lully to Haydn Deirdre Loughridge Printing, politics and ‘a well-regulated church music’: a new perspective on J. S. Bach’s Mühlhausen cantatas Markus Rathey Roger Long’s gut-strung keyboard instruments and Thomas Barton’s harpsichord stringing David Rowland BOOK REVIEWS National saints Sean Dunnahoe Centres and peripheries of 15th-century music Tim Shephard Instrumentalists and musical life at the Weimar court Barbara M. Reul The giant Handel edifice Ruth Smith Novel music Thomas McGeary Beethoven’s symphonies reintroduced Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald RECORDING REVIEWS Singing the 13th century Jeremy Llewellyn French fancies from the Renaissance and early Baroque Alex Robinson Racconto di due città Benjamin Katz Italian Baroque opera Vassilis Vavoulis Songs and arias Ivan Moody REPORTS The wedding of the century, Munich 1568 Jaap van Benthem Musicians, publishers and pirates of the mid-Baroque Stephan Schönlau _______________________________________________ AMS-Announce mailing list and bulletin board: READ THE GUIDELINES prior to submitting a post: http://www.ams-net.org/announce.php TO SEE THE ARCHIVED POSTS: http://listserv.unl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=AMS-ANNOUNCE TO UNSUBSCRIBE, or switch to/from Digest mode: log in to http://listserv.unl.edu and edit your subscription.