authors:subjects:- Music -- History and criticism -- 17th century.
- Music -- History and criticism -- 18th century.
publishers:ISBN:- 0195331060 (hbk.) :
- 9780195331066 (hbk.)
description:notes:- Previous ed.: 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-359) and index.
- 1. INTRODUCTION; Music History, 1600-1750: Some Basic Ideas; Historical Background: Western Europe, 1600-1750; Music in European History, 1600-1750; The Place of Music and Musicians in Society; Performance Practices; 2. A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY PROLOGUE: MOTET AND MADRIGAL; The Late Renaissance Motet: Palestrina and Lassus; The Madrigal: Gesualdo and Monteverdi; 3. TRANSITIONS AROUND 1600; Some General Developments; The Basso Continuo; Instruments; Monody; 4. MONTEVERDI AND EARLY BAROQUE MUSICAL DRAMA; Monteverdi's Orfeo; The Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Venetian Opera; Seventeenth-Century Italian Opera after Monteverdi; 5. SECULAR VOCAL MUSIC OF THE LATER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; Barbara Strozzi; Alessandro Scarlatti and the Later Cantata; The Dissemination of Italian Baroque Style; 6. LULLY AND FRENCH MUSICAL DRAMA; The French Style; Lully's Armide; 7. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SACRED MUSIC; Sacred Music in Venice: Giovanni Gabrieli; Sacred Music in Germany: Heinrich Sch:utz; Seventeenth-Century Oratorio; Sacred Music in France: Michel-Ricard de Lalande; 8. LATE BAROQUE OPERA; Handel; Rameau; 9. LATE BAROQUE SACRED MUSIC; J. S. Bach and the Eighteenth-Century Oratorio; Handel; 10. MUSIC FOR SOLO INSTRUMENTS I: TOCCATA AND SUITE; The Lute and Its Repertory; Keyboard Instruments; Baroque Keyboard Music in Italy; Baroque Keyboard Music in France and Germany; 11. MUSIC FOR SOLO INSTRUMENTS II: FUGUES AND PIECES; Later Baroque German Keyboard Music; J. S. Bach's Music for Solo Instruments; Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music in France; Other Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Composers; 12. MUSIC FOR INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE I: THE SONATA; The Chief Ensemble Instruments of the Baroque; Types of Baroque Music for Instrumental Ensemble; The Baroque Sonata; 13. MUSIC FOR INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE II: SINFONIA AND CONCERTO; The Bolognese Trumpet Sinfonia; The Baroque Concerto; 14. A MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EPILOGUE: THE GALANT STYLE; The Galant Style; Telemann; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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