Music of the baroque / David Schulenberg.
| Author/creator |
Schulenberg, David |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | Third edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, [2014] |
| Description | xi, 370 pages : illustrations, portraits, music, map ; 24 cm |
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| 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 wider dissemination of the Baroque style -- Lully and the French musical drama. The French style ; Lully's Armide -- Seventeenth-century sacred music. Sacred music in Venice: Giovanni Gabrieli ; Sacred music in Germany: Heinrich Schutz ; Seventeenth-century oratorio ; Lalande and the grand motet -- Late Baroque opera. George Frideric Handel ; Jean-Philippe Rameau -- Late Baroque sacred music. Johann Sebastian 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 pieces. 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 the 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. |
| Abstract | This anthology is a study of European music spanning from the late sixteenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries. Works by Lalande, Gaultier, Frescobaldi, Froberger, Rossi, Castello, Biber, Legrenzi, Torelli, Bach, La Guerre, Couperin, and Marini are included in this edition. Women composers and a number of "noncanonical" selections are presented within the anthology. The verbal texts of each vocal work along with translations when necessary are provided for the scores. Excerpts of coherent portions of works are given within the anthology, and the text volume presents a few briefer extracts in the form of musical examples. Pre- and post-Baroque selections provide transitions to music from other historical periods which illustrate the opening and closing chapters of the text volume. New pieces by Cavalli, Charpentier, La Guerre, Rameau, Scarlatti, and Carissimi are added to this edition. This is an anthology that contains a broad variety of compositions in an affordable format. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2013005312 |
| ISBN | 9780199942015 |
| ISBN | 0199942013 |
| ISBN | 9780199942022 |
| ISBN | 0199942021 |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML193 .S38 2014 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |