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Title:
Music of the baroque / David Schulenberg.
Author:
Schulenberg, David, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Call Number:
ML193 .S38 2014
Edition:
Third edition.
ISBN:
9780199942015

9780199942022
Physical Description:
xi, 370 pages : illustrations, portraits, music, map ; 24 cm.
Contents:
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 -- A Sixteenth-Century Prologue : Motet and Madrigal. The Late Renaissance Motet : Palestrina and Lassus ; The Madrigal -- Transitions Around 1600. Some General Developments ; The Basso Continuo ; Instruments ; Monody -- Monteverdi and Early Baroque Musical Drama. Claudio Monteverdi ; Monteverdi's Orfeo ; Later Works ; Venetian Opera -- Secular Vocal Music of the Later Seventeenth Century. Barbara Strozzi ; Alessandro Scarlatti and the Later Cantata ; The Dissemination of Baroque Style -- Lully and French Musical Drama. The French Style ; Lully's Armide -- Seventeenth-Century Sacred Music. Sacred Music in Venice : Giovanni Gabrieli ; Sacred Music in Germany : Heinrich Schütz ; Seventeenth-Century Oratorio ; Lalande and the Grand Motet -- Late Baroque Opera. Handel ; Rameau -- Late Baroque Sacred Music. J.S. Bach ; Handel and the Eighteenth-Century Oratorio -- Music for Solo Instruments I : Toccata and Suite. The Lute and Its Repertory ; Keyboard Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ; Baroque Keyboard Music in Italy ; Baroque Keyboard Music in France and Germany -- Music for Solo Instruments II : Fugues and Pièces. Later Baroque Keyboard Music ; J.S. Bach's Music for Solo Instruments ; Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music in France ; Other Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Composers -- Music for Instrumental Ensemble I : The Sonata. The Chief Ensemble Instruments of the Baroque ; Types of Baroque Music for Instrumental Ensemble ; The Baroque Sonata -- Music for Instrumental Ensemble II : Sinfonia and Concerto. The Bolognese Trumpet Sinfonia ; The Baroque Concerto -- A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Epilogue : The Galant Style.
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