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Renaissance versus Baroque music. Disintegration of stylistic unity ; Stylistic comparison between Renaissance and Baroque music ; The phases of Baroque music -- Early Baroque in Italy. The beginnings of the concertato style: Gabrieli ; The monody: Peri and Caccini ; Transformation of the madrigal: Monteverdi ; The infulence of the dance on vocal music ; Emancipation of isntrumental music: Frescobaldi ; The rise of opera: Monteverdi ; Tradition and progress in sacred music -- Early and middle Baroque in the northern countries. The Netherlands school and its English background. English antecedents: the abstract instrumental style ; The Netherlands: Sweelinck -- Germany and Austria in the 17th century. Chorale and devotional song ; Chorale motet and chorale concertato: Schein ; The dramatic concertato: Schutz ; Continuo lied, opera, and oratorio ; Scheidt, Froberger, and Biber -- Italian music of the middle Baroque. The bel-canto style ; The chamber cantata: Luigi Rossi and Carissimi ; The oratorio: Carissimi and Stradella ; The Venetian opera school ; Instrumental music: the Bologna school -- French music under absolutism. The ballet de cour ; French reactions to Italian opera ; Comedie-ballet and tragedie lyrique: Lully ; Cantata, oratorio, and church music ; Lute miniatures and keyboard music: Gaultier and Chambonnieres ; Music in the Iberian peninsula, New Spain and colonial America -- English music during the commonwealth and restoration. The masque and the English opera: Lawes and Blow ; Consort music: Jenkins and Simpson ; Anglican church music: Porter, Humfrey, and Blow ; Henry Purcell, the restoration genius -- Late Baroque: luxuriant counterpoint and concertato style. The culmination of late Baroque music in Italy. The rise of tonality ; Concerto grosso and solo concerto ; Ensemble sonata and solo sonata ; Opera seria and opera buffa - cantata and sacred music -- Late Baroque and Rococo style in France. Ensemble and Clavecin music ; Opera and cantata in France -- Fusion of national styles: Bach. The state of instrumental music in Germany before Bach ; The state of protestant church music before Bach ; Bach: the early period ; Bach the organist: Weimar ; Bach the mentor: Cothen ; Bach the cantor: Leipzig ; Bach, the past master -- Coordination of national syles: Handel. The state of secular vocal music in Germany before Handel ; Handel: German apprentice period ; Italian journeyman period ; English master period: Operas - oratorios - instrumental music ; Bach and Handel, a comparison -- Form in Baroque music. Formal principles and formal schemes ; Style and form ; Audible form and inaudible order -- Musical thought of the Baroque era. Code of performance: composer and performer ; Theory and practice of composition ; Musical speculation -- Sociology of baroque music. Courtly musical institutions of state and church: private patronage ; Civic musical institutions: collective patronage ; Social and economic aspects of music and musicians. |
