A History of Baroque Music

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Indiana University Press, Nov 23, 2004 - Music - 701 pages

A History of Baroque Music is an exhaustive study of the music of the Baroque period, with particular focus on the 17th century. Individual chapters consider the work of significant composers, including Monteverdi, Corelli, Scarlatti, Schütz, Purcell, Handel, Bach, and Telemann, as well as specific countries and regions. Two contributed chapters examine composers and genres from Russia, the Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia, and Latin America. The book also includes a wealth and variety of musical examples from all genres and instrumental combinations.

Contributors are Claudia Jensen, Metoda Kokole, Rui Vieira Nery, and Ennio Stipcevic.

 

Contents

BAROQUE AS A HISTORICAL CONCEPT
1
PART I
7
CHAPTER TWO BAROQUE INNOVATIONS IN ITALY TO CIRCA 1640
29
Opera in Rome
38
Keyboard Music
50
CHAPTER THREE
57
The Operas
72
The Sacred Works
78
Keyboard Music
322
CHAPTER ELEVEN HENRY PURCELL 16591695
329
The Church Anthems
335
Odes and Welcome Songs
344
Music for the Theater
350
CHAPTER TWELVE SPAIN PORTUGAL AND LATIN AMERICA
359
The First Half of the Eighteenth Century
385
Latin America
396

The Oratorio
90
Instrumental Music
104
CHAPTER FIVE ARCANGELO CORELLI 16531713 AND ALESSANDRO
116
Vocal Chamber Music of Alessandro Scarlatti
133
CHAPTER
152
Italian Opera at the French Court
158
The Baroque in France during the Reign of Louis XIV
167
Music for the Chapelle Royale
176
CHAPTER SEVEN SACRED MUSIC IN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE
204
Sweelinck and Sacred Vocal Music in the Netherlands
210
Other German Composers of Sacred Vocal Music
223
Sacred Vocal Music in Southern Germany and Austria
229
CHAPTER EIGHT SECULAR MUSIC IN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE
241
Keyboard Music in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
249
CHAPTER NINE HEINRICH SCHÜTZ 15851672
264
CHAPTER TEN ENGLISH MUSIC DURING THE STUART REIGN
292
Secular Vocal Music
304
Instrumental Music
315
Music in the Amerindian Archives
406
CHAPTER THIRTEEN BAROQUE MUSIC IN EASTERN EUROPE
414
Music in Slovenia Metoda Kokole ed Zdravko Blazekovic Ljubljana
429
Music in Russia Ukraine Claudia Jensen Kirkland Washington
437
CHAPTER FOURTEEN MUSIC IN ITALY
461
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
472
From Italy to London
480
The Instrumental Music
489
The Oratorios
497
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 16851750
503
The Organ Music
509
Chamber Music
520
152
533
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN 16811767
559
Telemann and the End of the Baroque
567
BIBLIOGRAPHY
604
INDEX
610
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About the author (2004)

George J. Buelow, Professor Emeritus of Musicology at Indiana University, is former President of the American Bach Society. His research and publications, including several articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, focus on the music of the Baroque and the history of opera.

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