A History of Baroque MusicA 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. |
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 |